The Works Of Ophra Behn

Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448212545

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The Secret Life of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd Pdf

'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet, novelist and spy: the date of her death, 16 April 1689. For the rest secrecy and duplicity are almost the key to her life. She loved codes, making and breaking them; writing her life becomes a decoding of a passionate but playful woman. Janet Todd draws on documents she has rediscovered in the Dutch archives, and on Behn's own writings, to tell a story of court, diplomatic and sexual intrigue, and of the rise from humble origins of the first woman to earn her living as a professional writer. Aphra Behn's first notable employment was as a Royal spy in Holland; she had probably also spied in Surinam. It was not until she was in her thirties that she published the first of the 19 plays and other works which established her fame (though not riches) among her 'good, sweet, honey-candied readers'. Many of her works were openly erotic, indeed as frank as anything by her friends Wycherley and Rochester. Some also offered an inside view of court and political intrigues, and Todd reveals the historical scandals and legal cases behind some of Behn's most famous 'fictions'.

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435026020057

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The Works of Aphra Behn by Aphra Behn Pdf

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141958873

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Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works by Aphra Behn Pdf

When Prince Oroonoko’s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko’s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (1688) reflects the author’s romantic view of Native Americans as simple, superior peoples ‘in the first state of innocence, before men knew how to sin’. The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude to African slavery – while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.

Author : Derek Hughes,Janet Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521527201

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The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn by Derek Hughes,Janet Todd Pdf

Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0405082576

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The Works of Aphra Behn by Aphra Behn Pdf

Author : Lizbeth Goodman,W.R. Owens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135636289

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Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon by Lizbeth Goodman,W.R. Owens Pdf

A clear introduction to the idea of the canon, exploring the process by which certain works, and not others, receive high cultural status. The work of Shakespeare and Aphra Behn is used to illustrate and challenge this process.

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : English drama (Comedy)
ISBN : 0192834517

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The Rover by Aphra Behn Pdf

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revived, demonstrate wit, compassion and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important comedies in a single volume: The Rover, her best-known play; The Feigned Courtesans, a lively comedy of intrigue; The Lucky Chance, a comedy with a bitter edge, which takes a satirical look at marriage customs; and the dazzling and popular farce, The Emperor of the Moon. All the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation.

Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 1571131655

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The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn by Janet Todd Pdf

This is the first study of the posthumous life of Aphra Behn, the extraordinary vicissitudes of her critical reception, and the personal vilifications of her reputation through three centuries. Beginning with the reception of Behn's work during her lifetime, which she herself helped to orchestrate by performing herself as a seductive woman, a beleaguered lady writer, and a serious intellectual, among other roles, the work ends with the late 20th-century reception of Behn, when the interest in gender, race, and class has made of her almost a postmodern writer. In the 17th century she was seen as a playwright of sexy and propagandist comedies, and attacked by those who disapproved her supposedly unfeminine stance and her royalist politics. Later, as the Restoration period itself fell into disrepute, Behn's plays were denigrated along with those of her fellow men, but greater opprobrium fell on her as a woman, because in the 19th century it was felt that a female writer should have higher morals than a man. During this period, Behn's reputation was exceedingly low, while her short story Oroonoko gained acclaim, freed from any association with its author or her supposedly squalid times. In the 18th and 19th centuries Oroonoko moved from being viewed as political commentary and heroic romance to a sentimental tale of doomed love and then an abolitionist text. In the early twentieth century it was hailed as one of the earliest realist texts, part of the great English ascent into the novel. JANET TODD is professor of English at the University of East Anglia

Author : Aphra Behn,Professor Montague Summers
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 134726986X

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The Works of Aphra Behn Volume 2 by Aphra Behn,Professor Montague Summers Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734090936

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The Works of Aphra Behn by Aphra Behn Pdf

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Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1736
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IND:30000108799739

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Love-letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn Pdf

Author : Aphra Behn,Professor Montague Summers
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1347328718

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The Works of Aphra Behn Volume 5 by Aphra Behn,Professor Montague Summers Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734091988

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The Works of Aphra Behn by Aphra Behn Pdf

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Author : Aphra Behn,Professor Montague Summers
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1346666822

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The Works of Aphra Behn Volume 3 by Aphra Behn,Professor Montague Summers Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Michael L. Stapleton
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0874138493

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Admired and Understood by Michael L. Stapleton Pdf

Admired and Understood analyzes Behn's only pure verse collection, Poems upon Several Occasions (1684), and situates her in her literary milieu as a poet. Behn's book demonstrates her desire for acceptance in her literary culture, to be admired and understood, as she puts its, the antitheses of what many surmise from reading her other works - that she saw herself primarily as a guerilla critic of her culture's views on race, class, and gender. The introduction to Admired and Understood argues that her colleagues thought of her as poet first, rather than as a dramatist, reviews current criticism about Behn, and provides a brief overview of late seventeenth-century poetical theory. The first chapter explains the intricately interwoven structure of Behn's collection. The next two chapters concern intertextual linkages between Behn and Abraham Cowley, as well as the influence of Thomas Creech's translations of Horace, Theocritus, and Lucretius on her poetics. The ensuing chapters concern Behn's response to Rochester's libertine aesthetic, a close reading of On a Juniper-Tree (a poem central to her collection), Katherine Philips as Behn's most important predecessor as a woman writin