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Behn Aphra
The Rover and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
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Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance, a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look at marriage customs; and the dazzling and popular farce, The Emperor of the Moon. All the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.
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Great text, frustrating format.
The text is fabulous. Providing access to an underappreciated female writer is desperately needed. The modernized spelling is wonderfully accessible. But using endnotes rather than footnotes to explain all unusual words, references, etc. is unbelievably frustrating. And not even endnotes after each play - endnotes at the end of the book! I am dizzy from flipping back and forth several times each page to the end of the book.
2005-10-26
(Ohio) | Helpful Votes: 8 | Rating: 3
Well-laid out text, excellent foreward
Recently introduced to the works of Aphra Behn, I found this collection to be an excellently laid out edition of some of her plays. The print is friendly to the eye (many collections of Restoration drama are not) and easy to read. I can only speak for "The Rover", as I have not had the time to read the rest of the plays. However, I found the notes and the forewards to the plays to be informative and easy to follow. It must be said that the notes were contained in the back of the book, as opposed to the bottom of the page; that was a bit of an irritant, especially when reading a crucial scene. On the whole however, I give this book a thumbs up!
1999-11-15
| katie_poet | Helpful Votes: 18 | Rating: 4
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Literary Collections / General; Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / American / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;
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Have a barf bag ready
The 'sister' in the title is actually a sister-in-law. During the Huguenot wars in France (the late 1500s), Philander married Myrtilla and then ran off with her sister Sylvia. These letters are between Philander and Sylvia, and at first they are thoroughly nauseating. They're loaded with trembling sighs and heaving bosoms and anguished glances, and frequent uses of Oh! and Alas! This goes on for hours. Things improve in the second half of the book, as the previous reviewer describes. I recommend doing a lot of skimming until you notice the exclamation points reducing in frequency, and then the characters start to mature a little.
2009-07-02
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sexuality and desire
Aphra Behn's Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister reveals the progress of the consciousness of the once innocent and naive Sylvia, who, after being seduced into an affair with her brother-in-law, Philander, learns of her own sexuality and desires. Behn's novel is not only an exploration of the sexual politics of the socety in which she lived in, but also, an examination of the notions of gender and identity. The exchange of love letters between Sylvia and Philander allows readers to sense the intimacy between the two couple, but most importanly, it allows readers to follow the transformantion of Sylvia's identity from lady to whore. Behn conveys the double standard that exists in her society, and perhaps our society as well. Philander, after his lover affair and scandal is still a lord, but unfortunately for Sylvia, once 'undone' is no longer a lady. This book was useful in helping me understand the sexual politics of seventeenth-century English society.
2000-05-20
| Helpful Votes: 15 | Rating: 4
The Secret Life of Aphra Behn
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Because of her sensuous writing in the 17th century, wild and wonderful Aphra Behn has been a notorious figure in history. Janet Todd's new biography elaborates on the mysterious Behn and reveals her to be a complex contradiction. Her politics were High Tory, but her language was considered indecent for a woman of her times. She fought against the restraints of a patriarchal world, yet depended upon male approval. She was a lover of the easy life, but risked her life as a spy for England. Todd brings new documents from Holland and England to light, as well as discussions of Behn's entire works, in order to present this in-depth study of a most remarkable writer.
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One volume, two rare women
Aphra Behn--poet, playwright, novelist, spy--was no ordinary woman of the Restoration. A commoner who mingled with the royals and shocked society with her bawdy language; at once a feminist, an abolitionist and a Tory; she's a figure of intrigue whose life remains largely unknown but commands our curiosity. Janet Todd's thorough, lively, and scholarly biography does her justice; her book carefully documents Behn's life without diminishing her mystique. If you care anything at all about verbal swordplay, clever storytelling, or listening to what women's voices have to say about our history, you must read Behn--and once you have, you'll be compelled to read Todd, as well.
2000-04-02
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Oroonoko, and Other Writings (Oxford Worlds Classics)
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The most complete collection of the work of Aphra Behn (1640-89) available, this volume contains Oroonoko and five other works of fiction ranging from comedy and high melodrama to tragedy. The works included-- The Fair Jilt, Memoirs of the Court of the King of Bantam, The History of the Nun, The Adventure of the Black Lady, and The Unfortunate Bride--are complemented by a generous selection of her poetry from public political verse to lyrics and witty conversation poems.
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Juicy Eurocentrism
Ideal for the author - is - dead scholarship. Whatever the ideological positon of the Royalist Restoration woman writer, one can critique the Eurocentrism of the narrator or applaud the subversive terrain of the novel as it depicts the slave rebellion. One may react with contempt at the narration of a sordid tale of slave contained or praise the novelist for having the foresight to hint at the importance of the colonial enterprise to the the mother country at a time when few other cannonized writers were doing that.
2000-04-26
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Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics)
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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.
WORKS OF APHRA BEHN: VOLUME VII, THE PLAYS, 16821696
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Behn Aphra News
Me and my mentor - Times Online
Times Online, UK - May 12, 2009
Times OnlineMe and my mentorWe chose The Rover by Aphra Behn, because it's a play by the first female playwright to have made a living from her writing, but also because Southwark is perfect for staging it. It's a Restoration comedy and is about English gentlemen fleeing
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Littérature et esclavage (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles) - Fabula
Fabula, France - May 20, 2009
Littérature et esclavage (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)D'autre part, il faut aussi poser la question du « genre » (gender) : le fait qu'un certain nombre de récits relatifs à l'esclavage soient écrits par des femmes (Aphra Behn, Olympe de Gouges, Germaine de Staël, la duchesse de Duras,
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Aphra Behn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aphra Behn (10 July 1640 – 16 April 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the ... The Disappointment (Aphra Behn) (1680) On Her Loving Two Equally (1682) ...
Aphra Behn: Biography from Answers.com
Aphra Behn , Playwright Born: 1640 Birthplace: Near Canterbury, England Died: 16 April 1689 Best Known As: 17th century English writer Name at birth:
The Aphra Behn Page
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was the first professional woman writer in English literature. ... Aphra Behn and the impossibility of female authorship (German) ...
Welcome to the homepage of the Aphra Behn Society
The Aphra Behn Society is dedicated to encouraging and advancing research that ... JOURNAL OF THE APHRA BEHN SOCIETY. We are seeking an editor for the society's ...
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
A biography of British dramatist and novelist Aphra Behn. ... Aphra Behn Quotes - a collection of quotes attributed to the Restoration dramatist. ...
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