The Rover: Revised edition

Carnival time in The Rover is a period when prohibitions are temporarily removed, privileges and rank suspended, and women — from convent girls to courtesans — take the initiative. Featuring multiple plot lines, which deal with the adventures of a group of love—struck Englishmen in Naples, Aphra Behn's play explores issues of love, trickery and deception, forced marriage, male power, fidelity, and the excesses of sexual passion. Hers is a male—dominated society, but one with a clear—sighted...