Behn Five Plays

by Aphra Behn, Maureen Duffy (Editor)

Overview

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)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413170903
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/10/1990
Series:	World Classics
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.09(d)

About the Author

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.

Maureen Duffy is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Calgary.

Editorial Reviews

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

From the Publisher

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