Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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The Roundheads; Or, the Good Old Cause, a Comedy
Author: Aphra BehnThe Roundheads, Or, The Good Old Cause
Author: Aphra BehnThe Roundheads; Or, the Good Old Cause, a Comedy. - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781296018894
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
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The Roundheads
Author: Aphra BehnAphra Behn - The Roundheads
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: Stage Door
ISBN: 9781785431708
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Aphra Behn was a prolific and well established writer but facts about her remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said though is that Aphra Behn is now regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre. Aphra was born into the rising tensions to the English Civil War. Obviously a time of much division and difficulty as the King and Parliament, and their respective forces, came ever closer to conflict. There are claims she was a spy, that she travelled abroad, possibly as far as Surinam. By 1664 her marriage was over (though by death or separation is not known but presumably the former as it occurred in the year of their marriage) and she now used Mrs Behn as her professional name. Aphra now moved towards pursuing a more sustainable and substantial career and began work for the King's Company and the Duke's Company players as a scribe. Previously her only writing had been poetry but now she would become a playwright. Her first, "The Forc'd Marriage," was staged in 1670, followed by "The Amorous Prince" (1671). After her third play, "The Dutch Lover," Aphra had a three year lull in her writing career. Again it is speculated that she went travelling again, possibly once again as a spy. After this sojourn her writing moves towards comic works, which prove commercially more successful. Her most popular works included "The Rover" and "Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister" (1684-87). With her growing reputation Aphra became friends with many of the most notable writers of the day. This is The Age of Dryden and his literary dominance. From the mid 1680's Aphra's health began to decline. This was exacerbated by her continual state of debt and descent into poverty. Aphra Behn died on April 16th 1689, and is buried in the East Cloister of Westminster Abbey. The inscription on her tombstone reads: "Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality." She was quoted as stating that she had led a "life dedicated to pleasure and poetry."
The Round Heads
Author: Aphra BehnThe Ashley Library
Author: Thomas James WisePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Catalog of the author's library of 1st editions of the famous English poets and dramatists from Elizabethan times until the present.
The Poetical Register
Author: Giles JacobPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Roundheads Or the Good Old Cause
Author: Aphrah BehnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781419281129
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
La. Des. Seiz'd on, secur'd, was there no time but this? What made him at the Committee, or when there, why spoke he honest Truth? What shall I do, good Corporal Advise: take Gold, and see if you can corrupt his Guards, but they are better paid for doing mischief; yet try, their Consciences are large.
A Dictionary of Old English Plays, Existing Either in Print Or in Manuscript, from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century
Author: James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description