Article: Review of Panek, Jennifer. Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy.(Book review)

Panek, Jennifer. Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 243pp. ISBN 0 5218 3271 3.

Kathryn Jacobs

Texas A & M - C

Kathryn_Jacobs@tamu-commerce.edu.

Jacobs, Kathryn. "Review of Panek, Jennifer. Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy." Early Modern Literary Studies 11.2 (September, 2005) 12.1-7 .

Jennifer Panek opens her book with the real life stories of two suitors, each of whom wished to marry a widow. One gentleman, a doctor, imitated the sexually aggressive suitors of comedy by climbing through her bedroom window one night. The other rejected literary precedent, refused ...

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