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Jealous men are a threat to young women's lives," declares Lauretta, one of Boccaccio's courtly narrators of uncourtly tales.
Such an anticourtly attitude is instead typical of literary texts associated with what Gordon McMullan has called "the country-based, feminocentric, uncourtly environment cultivated by the Huntingdons at Ashby.
Parts of co-editor David Bevington's introduction and his bold chapter on The Tempest as a commercial, public, and uncourtly treatment of the Elizabeth-Frederick of the Palatinate marriage do seem curiously at odds with the direction of the majority of contributors, relying upon precisely the sort of "decayed aristocracy" (with a bow towards Lawrence Stone) and "capitalism vs.
 
 
 
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