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Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy (Thompson, Peggy)
Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy
Untertitel Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency
Autor Thompson, Peggy
Verlag University Press Copublishing Division
Sprache Englisch
Einband Fester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
Seiten 202 S.
Artikelnummer 11495525
ISBN 978-1-61148-372-7
CHF 138.00
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Zusammenfassung

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.

By Peggy Thompson