Coyness and crime in restoration comedy : women's desire, deception, and agency / Peggy Thompson.
2012
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Title
Coyness and crime in restoration comedy : women's desire, deception, and agency / Peggy Thompson.
Created/published
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2012.
Description
xi, 189 p. ; 24 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Transits : literature, thought & culture
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.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Transits (Bucknell University)
Place of creation/publication
United States -- Pennsylvania.
Item Details
Call number
PR698.C6 T48 2012