Peggy Thompson

Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy

Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press Copublishing Division
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781611483727
• ISBN-10: 1611483727
• Artikelnr.: 33818665

Autorenporträt

By Peggy Thompson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Coyness
Conduct
and She Would if She Could Chapter 2 Feminine Illusion and Masculine Violence in Wycherley's Comedies Chapter 3 Unruly Women and Patriarchal Control in Dryden's The Kind Keeper Chapter 4 Coyness
Love
and Money in Behn's Comedies Chapter 5 Liberty and Coyness in Shadwell's Comedies Chapter 6 Novelty and Coyness in Congreve and Trotter Chapter 7 Marriage
Virtue
and Coyness in Southerne
Vanbrugh
and Pix