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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 822
EAN num: 9780803253506
ISBN number: 0803253508
Label: University of Nebraska Press
Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 144
Printing Date: 1967-06
Publishing house: University of Nebraska Press
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'I'm no tame sigher, but a rampant lion of the forest', says Willmore, the Rover, on shore after a long voyage. 'I have a world of love in store', he claims, searching through the streets for a woman to prove it. When he meets two young Spanish woman - 'I love mischief', says one - all the chemistry of comic satire lets loose. 'The Rover' roamed the English stage for a century and has been rediscovered in our own time as a theatrical masterpiece of wit and daring. Aphra Behn (1640-1689) combined dramatic genius and training with personal experience that gave her rare insight into manners and roles. She spied on the Dutch for the English king and was once imprisoned for debt. Behn is one of the very few great English playwrights to be honoured in life by popular scandal and in death by burial at Westminster Abbey. She was the very first English woman to earn her living by writing.
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Virginia Woolf said that all women together should let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn - for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds - well, within the Rover, her sexual politics are personified through the character of Angelica Bianca : and it makes for an intriguing read! Brandishing swords, embracing rape and finding their own individual identities in a society that veiwed women as second class subject, this remained the most frequently performed play right up until 1800!
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