Coyness and crime in restoration comedy : women's desire, deception, and agency / Peggy Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Peggy, 1952 July 28-

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits : literature, thought & culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700--History and criticism.

English drama.

English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

English drama (Comedy).

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 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; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-35630-1

1-283-36244-9

9786613362445

1-61148-373-5

OCLC:

768082511