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. 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, paradoxica
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The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers is the most popular play by the Restoration playwright and spy Aphra Behn, first performed in 1677. The play follows the wild exploits of a group of English gentlemen in Naples at carnival time, although many...
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<b>"We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues"</b><p>When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather,...
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<p>Restoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and <i>Oroonoko</i> is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Penguin Classics edition is edited...
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