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Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy
Women's Desire, Deception, and Agency
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ISBN-13:
9781611483734
Veröffentl:
2011
Seiten:
202
Autor:
Peggy Thompson
Serie:
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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 illicit desire that must be contained. Forceful responses by men, therefore, are implicitly exonerated, encouraged, and eroticized. In short, characters become “women” by performing coyness, only to be mocked and punished for it.
Peggy Thompson explores the disturbing dynamic of feminine coyness and masculine control as it interacts with reaffirmations of church and king, anxiety over new wealth, and emerging interests in liberty, novelty, and marriage in late seventeenth-century England. Despite the diversity of these contexts, the 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.
Peggy Thompson explores the disturbing dynamic of feminine coyness and masculine control as it interacts with reaffirmations of church and king, anxiety over new wealth, and emerging interests in liberty, novelty, and marriage in late seventeenth-century England. Despite the diversity of these contexts, the 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.
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'sThe 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
Chapter 2 Feminine Illusion and Masculine Violence in Wycherley's Comedies
Chapter 3 Unruly Women and Patriarchal Control in Dryden'sThe 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