Coyness and crime in restoration comedy women's desire, deception, and agency

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

Author/creator	Thompson, Peggy, 1952 July 28-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
Description	xi, 189 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	English drama--Restoration, 1660-1700 --History and criticism. English drama (Comedy)--History and criticism. Women in literature. Sex role in literature. Literature and society--Great Britain --History --17th century.

Abstract	"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 note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-180) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2011029249
ISBN	9781611483727 (hardback)
ISBN	9781611483734 (electronic)

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