Author: Aphra BehnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Love in Many Masks: as altered by J. P. Kemble, from Mrs. Behn's Rover ... The second edition
Author: Aphra BehnLove in Many Masks: as altered by J. P. Kemble from Mrs. Behn's Rover [i.e. from the first part].
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Author: Aphra BehnLove in many masks
Author: Aphra P. BehnThe Rover - Second Edition
Author: Aphra BehnPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460402979
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Increasingly Aphra Behn—the first woman professional writer—is also regarded as one of the most important writers of the 17th century. The Rover, her most famous and most accomplished play, is in many ways firmly in the tradition of Restoration drama; Willmore, the title character, is a rake and a libertine, and the comedy feeds on sexual innuendo, intrigue and wit. But the laughter that the play insights has a biting edge to it and the sexual intrigue an unsettling depth. As Anne Russell points out in her introduction to this edition, there are three options for women in the society represented in The Rover: marriage, the convent, or prostitution. In this marriage economy the witty and pragmatic virgin Hellena learns how to survive, while the prostitute Angellica Bianca can retain her autonomy only so long as she remains free from romantic love. It seems that in this world women can only be free by the anonymity of disguise—yet the mask is also the mark of the prostitute. And, paradoxically, disguise is the device that in many ways drives the plot towards marriage. Enormously popular through the eighteenth century, The Rover is now once again widely performed. Filled with the play of ideas, it is one of the most amusing, entertaining—and unsettling—of comedies.
Aphra Behn
Author: Mary Ann O'DonnellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351957791
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
This annotated bibliography constitutes a thoroughly revised and more easily readable study of Behn's publications, of those edited or translated by her, of publications that included her works, and of writings ascribed to her, along with an annotated bibliography of over 1600 works about her from 1671 to 2001, with an unannotated update covering 2002. The augmented primary bibliography describes all known editions and issues of her works to 1702, and adds a catalogue of editions to 2002, including on-line sources. The secondary bibliography adds close to 1000 items published since 1984 to the original 600 of the first edition along with about 175 more from 1671 to 1984, with attention to materials not in English. New appendices include a list of dedicatees, actors, recent productions (with reviews), and provenances. This volume will be invaluable for book dealers, collectors and librarians, as well as students and scholars of Aphra Behn and of Restoration literature.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature
Author: Tobias SmollettPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The critical review, or annals of literature
Author: The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre
Author: Nancy CopelandPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351898248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Staging Gender in Behn and Centlivre studies the representation of gender in four of the most important plays by the leading professional women playwrights of the late Stuart period. Behn's The Rover (1677) and The Luckey Chance (1686) and Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709) and The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret (1714) are first placed in their original theatrical and cultural contexts and then studied through subsequent productions and adaptations extending from the eighteenth century to the twentieth. The detailed analysis of these plays is framed by a discussion of the cultural position of the playwrights and the kind of comedy they wrote. The survival of these plays in the repertoire offers an unusual opportunity to examine the theatrical 'double life' of works by early women playwrights. The lengthy production histories of these comedies placed them in dialogue with radically different ideas of appropriate and permissible behavior for both women and men. The resulting productions, alterations, and adaptations included both feminist reinterpretations and recuperations of the plays' challenges to dominant meanings of gender. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of dramatic literature, theatre, and women's studies.
