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Article: Review of Panek, Jennifer. Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy.(Book review)
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- Early Modern Literary Studies
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2005 Matthew Steggle. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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
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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 ...