The Rover

The Rover PDF

Author: Aphra Behn

Publisher: Joe Books Ltd

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1987955684

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The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.

The Second Part of the Rover. [A Comedy.] - Scholar's Choice Edition

The Second Part of the Rover. [A Comedy.] - Scholar's Choice Edition PDF

Author: Aphra Behn

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-14

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781297017681

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Broken Boundaries

Broken Boundaries PDF

Author: Katherine M. Quinsey

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2021-03-17

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0813159997

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This volume of twelve original essays is the first comprehensive study of feminist issues in Restoration drama. The late seventeenth century marks a pivotal era in the history of feminism, when Renaissance assumptions about gender and patriarchy were being directly challenged. For the first time, women appeared onstage as actresses, made their presence felt as spectators and patrons, and wrote a number of the plays produced in theaters. In an unusually direct and probing way, drama of the Restoration period raised radical questions about the place of women in the family and in society, and about the essential nature of men and women. The essays examine feminist issues from a variety of historical and theoretical approaches across a spectrum of plays—comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies, and heroic drama. By addressing the acute questions of gender raised in the drama, Broken Boundaries presents a vivid portrait of the uncertainties and changing perceptions in all areas of intellectual, political, and social life during the last decades of the seventeenth century.

Behn Five Plays

Behn Five Plays PDF

Author: Aphra Behn

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-03-20

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1408149087

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Aphra Behn was among the wittiest and most prolific playwrights of her day The Widow Ranter is a tragi-comedy, The False Count concerns the marriage of a young woman to a much older man whilst The Lucky Chance ran into instant criticism for immorality. The Rover is her most famous comedy and Abdelazar is her only tragedy. "Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common...All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn." (Virginia Woolf on Aphra Behn)

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy

The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy PDF

Author: Brian Corman

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2013-01-21

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 1551119226

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The ten plays in this new collection show both the continuity and the changes in comedy over the course of the Restoration and eighteenth century. Each play includes its original prologue and epilogue, as well as an historical introduction and full annotation. The editor’s Introduction provides a rich historical and literary context for the plays’ composition and production. A glossary of frequently used words likely to be unfamiliar to general readers is also included.