Thomas Shadwell's Bury-Fair

Thomas Shadwell's Bury-Fair

Author: John C. Ross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 042957505X

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First published in 1995, Ross provides a critical edition of Thomas Shadwell’s Bury Fair.


Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy

Coyness and Crime in Restoration Comedy

Author: Peggy Thompson

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1611483727

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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.