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Behn Five Plays Aphra Behn

Behn Five Plays By Aphra Behn

Behn Five Plays by Aphra Behn


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Summary

Published to mark the tercentenary of Aphra Behn's death, this collection contains five varied plays including "The Lucky Chance" and "The Rover". It is edited by a well-known novelist who has also written a biography of Aphra Behn, "The Passionate Shepherdess".

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Behn Five Plays by Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn was among the wittiest and most prolific playwrights of her day The Widow Ranter is a tragi-comedy, The False Count concerns the marriage of a young woman to a much older man whilst The Lucky Chance ran into instant criticism for immorality. The Rover is her most famous comedy and Abdelazar is her only tragedy."Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common...All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn." (Virginia Woolf on Aphra Behn)

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Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn. Virginia Woolf on Aphra Behn"
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common...All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn." --Virginia Woolf on Aphra Behn

About Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a prolific play, novel and poetry writer of the English Restoration and was one of the first female English professional writers. Her plays include The Forced Marriage, The Amorous Prince, The Dutch Lover, Abdelazer, The Town Fop, The Rover, Sir Patient Fancy, The Feigned Courtesans, The Young King, The False Count, The Roundheads, The City Heiress, Like Father, Like Son, The Lucky Chance, and The Emperor of the Moon.

Table of Contents

"The Lucky Chance";"The Rover Part I";"The Widow Ranter";"The False Count";"Abdelazar".

Additional information

GOR002598239
9780413170903
041317090X
Behn Five Plays by Aphra Behn
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1990-12-10
496
N/A
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