The Rover
Author: Aphra Behn
Publisher: Joe Books Ltd
Published: 2015-06-02
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1987955684
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.
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Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works
Author: Aphra Behn
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2003-08-28
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0141958871
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (1688) reflects the author’s romantic view of Native Americans as simple, superior peoples ‘in the first state of innocence, before men knew how to sin’. The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude to African slavery – while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.
The Rover
Author: Aphra Behn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780192834515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance, a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look at marriage customs; and the dazzling and popular farce, The Emperor of the Moon. All the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.
The Rover
Author: Aphra Behn
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780713639414
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The play is a racy comedy of intrigue, action and amorous adventures set in Naples at carnival time during the exile of Charles 11. It is the most important of twenty plays attributed to Aphra Behn (c. 1640-1689), the daring, first successful woman writer of poetry, fiction and drama. This edition takes account of recent critical approaches as well as of the play's recent stage history. New Mermaids are modernized, fully annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes- Modern spelling playtext Textual notes recording substantive changes to the copytext and variant readings Glossing notes elucidating obscure words and word play Critical, contextual and staging notes . Photographs of productions where applicable A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history.
The Way of the World and Other Plays
Author: William Congreve
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-04-27
Total Pages: 654
ISBN-13: 0141938080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With piercing accuracy William ongreve depicted the shallow, brittle world of 'society' where the right artifice in manners, fashion and conversation--and money--eased the passage to success. Through sparkling, witty dialogue and brilliant characterisation--Lady Plyant, Valentine, Lady Touchwood, Mirabell and Millamant--Congreve exposed the follies and vanities of that world, and suggested that behind the glinting mirror lay something more brutal. 'The language is everywhere that of Men of Honour, but their Actions are those of Knaves; a proof that he was perfectly well acquainted with human Nature, and frequented what we call polite company.' --Voltaire 'Congreve quitted the stage in disdain, and comedy left it with him.' --A contemporary
The Rover and Other Plays
Author: Aphra Behn
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2008-04-17
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780199540204
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aphra Behn was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays demonstrate wit, compassion, and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important comedies. Detailed annotation helps the reader to visualize the plays in performance and the Introduction argues for the importance of Behn's skilful stagecraft and her great success as an entertainer. Includes: The Rover; The Feigned Courtesans; The Lucky Chance; The Emperor of the Moon.
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
Author: Janet Todd
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-09-19
Total Pages: 830
ISBN-13: 1448212545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet, novelist and spy: the date of her death, 16 April 1689. For the rest secrecy and duplicity are almost the key to her life. She loved codes, making and breaking them; writing her life becomes a decoding of a passionate but playful woman. Janet Todd draws on documents she has rediscovered in the Dutch archives, and on Behn's own writings, to tell a story of court, diplomatic and sexual intrigue, and of the rise from humble origins of the first woman to earn her living as a professional writer. Aphra Behn's first notable employment was as a Royal spy in Holland; she had probably also spied in Surinam. It was not until she was in her thirties that she published the first of the 19 plays and other works which established her fame (though not riches) among her 'good, sweet, honey-candied readers'. Many of her works were openly erotic, indeed as frank as anything by her friends Wycherley and Rochester. Some also offered an inside view of court and political intrigues, and Todd reveals the historical scandals and legal cases behind some of Behn's most famous 'fictions'.
The Rover, Second Edition
Oh, Play That Thing
Author: Roddy Doyle
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2011-12-14
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 0307368971
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, lands on his feet. After the 1916 Rebellion, Henry Smart is running from the Republicans for whom he committed murder and mayhem. Lying to the immigration officer, avoiding Irish eyes that might recognise him, hiding the photograph of himself with his wife because it shows a gun across his lap, he throws his passport into the river and forges a new identity. He's a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind which he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. It is time to leave, for another America... The Depression is sending folks to ride the rails in search of a new life and new hope, and all trains lead to Chicago. As Henry’s past tries to catch up with him, he takes off on a journey to the great port, where music is everywhere. Chicago is wild and new, and newest of all is the music. Furious, wild, happy music played by a man with a trumpet and bleeding lips called Louis Armstrong. His music is everywhere, coming from every open door, every phonograph. But Armstrong is a prisoner of his colour; there are places a black man cannot go, things he cannot do. Armstrong needs a man, a white man, and the man he chooses is Henry Smart.
The Red Rover
