Before 1660, English readers and theatergoers had never heard of a "coquette"; by the early 1700s, they could hardly watch a play, read a poem, or peruse a news
'Whoever The Coquette is, she's the voice of reason for these crazy times' Maria Alyokhina, Pussy Riot Dear Coquette unleashes the brutal truth about life, love
A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayal