Coyness and crime in restoration comedy [electronic resource] : women's desire, deception, and agency / Peggy Thompson.
2012
PR698.C6 T48 2012
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Coyness and crime in restoration comedy [electronic resource] : women's desire, deception, and agency / Peggy Thompson.
ISBN
9781611483727
9781611483734 (electronic book)
9781611483734 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
xi, 189 p.
Call Number
PR698.C6 T48 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
822/.0523093522
Summary
"Coyness and Crime examines the extraordinary focus on feminine coyness in forty English comedies by ten diverse playwrights of the late seventeenth-century. In contexts ranging from reaffirmations of church and king to emerging interests in liberty and novelty, these plays consistently reveal women caught in an ironic and nearly intractable convergence of objectification and culpability that allows them little innocent sexual agency; this is both the source and the legacy of coyness in Restoration comedy"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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