
'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526–1635
Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women: Series III, Part Two, Volume 8
The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Two
Kuvaus
By turns witty and inane, crude and learned, scurrilous and moralistic, jestbooks offer an important and often overlooked viewpoint on the lives of women in early modern England. This volume reproduces seven jestbooks with connections to early modern Englishwomen as well as showing something of the broad genre itself.
