Men-acing (?)

I'm wondering about a couple of things. The first is the frequent threat of rape in the play. Willmore, Blunt, Frederick and Pedro all come varyingly close to raping Florinda and I wonder what we are to make of this in a play deemed a comedy. Is it enough that these rapes are only just threatened and so pose no real danger to a "happy ending?" Does the play imply some sort of universal menace in men that Hellena and Valeria marry would-be rapists (ah well, boys will be boys!?). Are there ways in which the play complicates such a blunt statement about expected male behavior?

In a similar vein, what is the significance of Florinda's father's choice for her marriage (Don Vincento) never actually appearing in the play? I read this as another kind of pervasive threat for women - the subjection to their fathers' wishes, the looming of an almost ghostly threat of male domination made more difficult to resist or defy by the lack of corporeal existence in the play. But am I making too much of this? I wonder what others are thinking...