Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: Joe Books Ltd
ISBN: 1987955684
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.
The Rover
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: Joe Books Ltd
ISBN: 1987955684
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141958871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (1688) reflects the author’s romantic view of Native Americans as simple, superior peoples ‘in the first state of innocence, before men knew how to sin’. The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude to African slavery – while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.
A Study Guide for Aphra Behn's "The Rover"
Author: Gale, Cengage LearningPublisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN: 1410357058
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Study Guide for Aphra Behn's "The Rover," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
The Second Part of The Rover
Author: Aphra BehnThe Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn
Author: Derek HughesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139826948
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.
The Rover
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540318473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Aphra Behn was a British writer during the Restoration era in the 17th century. Behn was one of the first women in history to earn a writing through living and she would inspire many of the great female authors that followed. Virginia Woolf famously wrote in "A Room of One's Own" that all women should lay flowers on the tomb of Aphra Behn because she earned them the right to speak their minds. The Rover is a two part play that is considered a remake of Thomas Killigrew's play Thomaso, or The Wanderer. The play centers around the adventures of a group of Englishmen traveling in Naples at Carnival time.
A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake
Author: David WomersleyPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631212850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
This definitive Companion provides a critical overview of literary culture in the period from John Milton to William Blake. Its broad chronological range responds to recent reshapings of the canon and identifies new directions of study. The Companion is composed of over fifty contributions from leading scholars in the field, its essays offer students a comprehensive and accessible survey of the field from a wide range of perspectives. It also, however, gives researchers and faculty the opportunity to update their acquaintance with new critical and scholarly work. The volume meets the needs of an intellectual world increasingly given over to inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary study by covering philosophical, political, cultural and historical writing, as well as literary writing. Unlike other similar volumes, the main body of the Companion consists of readings of individual texts, both those commonly and less commonly studied.
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
Author: Janet ToddPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1448212545
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet, novelist and spy: the date of her death, 16 April 1689. For the rest secrecy and duplicity are almost the key to her life. She loved codes, making and breaking them; writing her life becomes a decoding of a passionate but playful woman. Janet Todd draws on documents she has rediscovered in the Dutch archives, and on Behn's own writings, to tell a story of court, diplomatic and sexual intrigue, and of the rise from humble origins of the first woman to earn her living as a professional writer. Aphra Behn's first notable employment was as a Royal spy in Holland; she had probably also spied in Surinam. It was not until she was in her thirties that she published the first of the 19 plays and other works which established her fame (though not riches) among her 'good, sweet, honey-candied readers'. Many of her works were openly erotic, indeed as frank as anything by her friends Wycherley and Rochester. Some also offered an inside view of court and political intrigues, and Todd reveals the historical scandals and legal cases behind some of Behn's most famous 'fictions'.
The Rover, Second Edition
Author: The Rover
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542526685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Aphra Behn was a British writer during the Restoration era in the 17th century. Behn was one of the first women in history to earn a writing through living and she would inspire many of the great female authors that followed. Virginia Woolf famously wrote in "A Room of One's Own" that all women should lay flowers on the tomb of Aphra Behn because she earned them the right to speak their minds. The Rover is a two part play that is considered a remake of Thomas Killigrew's play Thomaso, or The Wanderer. The play centers around the adventures of a group of Englishmen traveling in Naples at Carnival time.