03320nam 2200685 a 450 991078974550332120230801221405.01-283-36244-997866133624451-61148-373-5(CKB)2670000000131236(EBL)817152(OCoLC)768082511(SSID)ssj0000554558(PQKBManifestationID)11341874(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000554558(PQKBWorkID)10512940(PQKB)10626987(MiAaPQ)EBC817152(Au-PeEL)EBL817152(CaPaEBR)ebr10519501(CaONFJC)MIL336244(EXLCZ)99267000000013123620110801d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCoyness and crime in restoration comedy[electronic resource] women's desire, deception, and agency /Peggy ThompsonLanham, Md. Bucknell University Press20121 online resource (203 p.)Transits : literature, thought & cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-61148-551-7 1-61148-372-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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"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.Transits (Bucknell University)English dramaRestoration, 1660-1700History and criticismEnglish drama (Comedy)History and criticismWomen in literatureSex role in literatureLiterature and societyGreat BritainHistory17th centuryEnglish dramaHistory and criticism.English drama (Comedy)History and criticism.Women in literature.Sex role in literature.Literature and societyHistory822/.0523093522LIT003000bisacshThompson Peggy1952 July 28-1497727MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789745503321Coyness and crime in restoration comedy3722960UNINA