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Epilogue: The Problem of Fun

  • Pamela Allen Brown
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Better a Shrew than a Sheep
This chapter is in the book Better a Shrew than a Sheep
© 2019 Cornell University Press, Ithaca

© 2019 Cornell University Press, Ithaca

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgments ix
  5. Introduction Sauce for the Gander 1
  6. 1. Near Neighbors, Women's Wars, and Merry Wives 33
  7. 2. Ale and Female: Gossips as Players, Alehouse as Theater 56
  8. 3. Between Women, or All Is Fair at Horn Fair 83
  9. 4· "O such a rogue would be hang'd!" Shrews versus Wife Beaters 118
  10. 5. Scandalous Pleasures: A Coney-Catcher and Her Public 150
  11. 6. Griselda the Fool 178
  12. Epilogue: The Problem of Fun 218
  13. Bibliography 223
  14. Index 255
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722363-010

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Illustrations vii
  4. Acknowledgments ix
  5. Introduction Sauce for the Gander 1
  6. 1. Near Neighbors, Women's Wars, and Merry Wives 33
  7. 2. Ale and Female: Gossips as Players, Alehouse as Theater 56
  8. 3. Between Women, or All Is Fair at Horn Fair 83
  9. 4· "O such a rogue would be hang'd!" Shrews versus Wife Beaters 118
  10. 5. Scandalous Pleasures: A Coney-Catcher and Her Public 150
  11. 6. Griselda the Fool 178
  12. Epilogue: The Problem of Fun 218
  13. Bibliography 223
  14. Index 255
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