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Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England

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  • © 2003

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Authors:
  1. Sandra Clark

    1. School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Early Modern News and Crime Writing: Its Literary and Ideological Context

    • Sandra Clark
    Pages 1-32

  3. Women’s Crimes: Their Social Context and Their Representation

    • Sandra Clark
    Pages 33-69

  4. The Broadside Ballad

    • Sandra Clark
    Pages 70-105

  5. Domestic Plays

    • Sandra Clark
    Pages 106-144

  6. Crime News and the Pamphlet

    • Sandra Clark
    Pages 145-179

  7. Conclusion

    • Sandra Clark
    Pages 180-184

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 185-233
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Clark explores how real-life women's crimes were handled in the news media of an age before the invention of the newspaper, in ballads, pamphlets, and plays. It discusses those features of contemporary society which particularly influenced early modern crime reporting, such as attitudes to news, the law and women's rights, and ideas about the responsibility of the community for keeping order. It considers the problems of writing about transgressive women for audiences whose ideal woman was chaste, silent, and obedient.

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  • School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Sandra Clark

About the author

SANDRA CLARK is Reader in Renaissance Literature at Birkbeck College at the University of London. She has previously taught at the University of Toronto and the Open University. She has written books and articles on the Elizabethan pamphleteers, early modern English playwrights including Shakespeare, Webster and Beaumont and Fletcher, and on the broadside ballad.

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