Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency |
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| Author:
| Thompson, Peggy |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61148-551-6 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
| Publisher: | Bucknell University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $50.99 |
Book Description:
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Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy examines the extraordinary focus on coy women in late seventeenth-century English comedy. Plays by Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Behn, Shadwell, Congreve, Trotter, Southerne, Vanbrugh, and Pix-as well as much modern scholarship about them-taint almost all feminine modesty with intimations of duplicity and ......
Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy examines the extraordinary focus on coy women in late seventeenth-century English comedy. Plays by Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Behn, Shadwell, Congreve, Trotter, Southerne, Vanbrugh, and Pix-as well as much modern scholarship about them-taint almost all feminine modesty with intimations of duplicity and ......