Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on texts
- Introduction
- 1 The widow's choice: female remarriage in early modern England
- 2 The widow's threat: domestic government and male anxiety
- 3 The suitor's fantasy: courtship and compensation
- 4 The husband's fear: the lusty widow as wife
- 5 A playwright's response: four Middletonian remarriage plots
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
1 - The widow's choice: female remarriage in early modern England
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on texts
- Introduction
- 1 The widow's choice: female remarriage in early modern England
- 2 The widow's threat: domestic government and male anxiety
- 3 The suitor's fantasy: courtship and compensation
- 4 The husband's fear: the lusty widow as wife
- 5 A playwright's response: four Middletonian remarriage plots
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
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- Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy , pp. 13 - 45Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004