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Aphra Behn’s 'Emperor of the Moon' and its French Source 'Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune'
Language: en
Pages: 178
Authors: Judy A. Hayden
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-31 - Publisher: MHRA

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Aphra Behn’s spectacular farce, Emperor of the Moon (1687), so engaged audiences that it was restaged well into the eighteenth century. Her play was largely a
The Rover
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: Aphra Behn
Categories: English drama (Comedy)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays, often revive
World-Making Renaissance Women
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Pamela S. Hammons
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This collection affirms the shaping authority of early modern women in literature and culture, evident well beyond their own moment.
Plays 1682–1696: Volume 4, The Plays 1682–1696
Language: en
Pages: 956
Authors: Aphra Behn
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two d
The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Deborah Payne Fisk
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-05-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Fourteen specially commissioned essays provide essential information about staging, playwrights, themes and genres in the drama of the Restoration.