The Rover and Other Plays, edited by Jane Spenser and published in 1998 by Oxford University Press in the Oxford World Classics series, contains four of Behn's most popular and important comedies: The Rover; The Feigned Courtesans; The Lucky Chance; and The Emperor of the Moon.

The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660-1700 (1992), by Elizabeth Howe, is a book for general readers about how and why women were allowed for the first time to act on the public stage after 1660. Howe explains the treatment received by the actresses and addresses issues such as the extent to which the arrival of female actresses altered dramatic portrayals of women and encouraged equality between the sexes.

The Meridian Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Plays by Women (1994), edited by Katherine M. Rogers, contains seven plays, by Behn (Sir Patient Fancy), Frances Burney, Susanna Centlivre...