Women and Crime in the Street Literature of Early Modern England

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.

• Introduction Early Modern News and Crime-Writing: Its Literary and Ideological Context Women's Crimes: Their Social Context and their Representation The Broadside Ballad Domestic Plays Crime News and the Pamphlet Conclusion Endnotes Work Cited Index