Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy : Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency.

By:

Thompson, Peggy

Contributor(s):

Bucknell University Press

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Transits (Bucknell University)Publication details: Lanham : Bucknell University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (203 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781611483734
1611483735
1283362449
9781283362443

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy : Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency.DDC classification:

822.309

LOC classification:

PR698.C6

Other classification:

LIT003000

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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.

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.Cs95E872D0{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt}.csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; }.cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; }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.