Behn Five Plays
- ISBN-10
- 041317090X
- ISBN-13
- 9780413170903
- Category
- Performing Arts / General
- Pages
- 473
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Author
- Aphra Behn
Description
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)
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