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Aphra Behn

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The Rover Summary

The Rover, published and first produced in 1677, was Aphra Behn's most successful play. The original full title, The Rover; or, The Banish'd Cavaliers, indicates that the play was a tribute to the formerly exiled cavalier and newly reinstated king, Charles II. The Rover is a dark comedy that mixes themes of prostitution and rape with comic buffoonery. The play expresses its author's objections to the vulnerability of women in Restoration society. Perhaps ironically...

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Aphra Behn Biographies (4)

Aphra Behn

1,908 words, approx. 7 pages

English poet, novelist, and playwright Aphra Behn (ca. 1640-1689) was the first of her gender to earn a living as a writer in the English language.Aphra Behn was a successful author at a time when few... Read more

Aphra Behn

6,013 words, approx. 21 pages

All women writers, observed Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own (1928), "ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds." The pr... Read more

Aphra Behn

7,198 words, approx. 24 pages

Aphra Behn was one of the best and most successful comic writers in a great age of English comedy. If her plays are less polished than those of George Etherege and William Wycherley, it must be rememb... Read more

Aphra Behn

4,268 words, approx. 15 pages

Aphra Behn, one of the most influential dramatists of the late seventeenth century, was also a celebrated poet and novelist. Her contemporary reputation was founded primarily on her "scandalous" plays... Read more

Essays & Analysis (2)

A Character Study of Angelca Bianca

802 words, approx. 3 pages

`An unscrupulous whore condemned by the audience' ` A victim of social circumstances, with whom the audience sympathises' Write about these views in the world of the play Men, some to Business, oth... Read more

Cross-dressing and Disguise in Aphra Behn's the Rover

2,140 words, approx. 8 pages

Aphra Behn's The Rover is set during the interregnum, that is to say in the period of time before the restoration of Charles II. Furthermore, the action of the play takes place not in England but in N... Read more

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