the mythical Indian prince who was powdered in gold after his bath , lived in South America , while Sir Walter Ralegh in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries had gone on futile quests for part mythical , part commercial ...
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.
The Works of Aphra Behn
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 has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
1697 The Rover revivedbyHis Majesties Servants, LittleLincolnsInnFields; second edition published. The False Count reissued. Possible revivalofThe CityHeiress. Possible revivalof TheYoung King. Poems upon Several Occasions (1684) bound ...
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 has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
The Works of Aphra Behn: The fair jilt and other short stories
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 ...