Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Works of Aphra Behn: Preface. Memoir of Mrs. Behn. The rover; or, The banish'd cavaliers (pt. 1-2) The Dutch lover. The Round-heads; or, The good old cause
Author: Aphra BehnPreface. Memoir of Mrs. Behn. The rover; or, The banish'd cavaliers (pt. 1-2) The Dutch lover. The Round-heads; or, The good old cause
Author: Aphra BehnThe Works of Aphra Behn: Introduction, by M. Summers. The rover; or, The banish'd cavaliers. The Dutch lover. The Round-heads; or, The good old cause
Author: Aphra BehnA Bibliography of the Works of Montague Summers
Author: Timothy D'Arch SmithPublisher: New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Aphra Behn - The Rover - Part I
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781079207057
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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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."
Montague Summers, a Bibliography
Author: Timothy D'Arch SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Aphra Behn - The Rover - Part II
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781078280150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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 Rover; Or, the Banish'd Cavaliers
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781409961833
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Aphra Behn, nee Johnston (1640-1689) was a Restoration poet, novelist, playwright, feminist and spy, considered by many to be the first English professional female writer. Unappreciated for years, she is now rightly regarded as a highly talented, innovative and prolific author. Her most famous work is a novel, Oroonoko (1688) which tells the tragic love story of its eponymous hero, an African forced into slavery. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1683) is an epistolary novel, (the first ever written) and an innovative and pioneering work. Her other works include: The Forced Marriage (1670), The Dutch Lover (1673), The Feigned Courtesans (1679), The Roundheads (1681), The City Heiress (1682) and Poems Upon Several Occasions (1684).
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Brooklyn: A-C
Author: Mercantile Library Association of BrooklynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Asutosh Collection: Literature: American & European
Author: National Library (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : National libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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