The Rover (Regents Restoration Drama) - Softcover

Behn, Aphra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803253508 ISBN 13: 9780803253506

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1983

Synopsis

"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 honored in life by popular scandal and in death by burial at Westminster Abbey. She was the first English woman to earn her living by writing.

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Review:

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. --Virginia Woolf

Viewed with a mind open to the political and social climates of its time, The Rover is a resoundingly funny lark, with a host of hearty and toothsome characterisations of the stereotypes of the day. --British Theatre Guide

Viewed with a mind open to the political and social climates of its time, The Rover is a resoundingly funny lark, with a host of hearty and toothsome characterisations of the stereotypes of the day. --British Theatre Guide

About the Author:

The editor, Robyn Bolam, is Professor of literature at St Mary's University College, London.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0803253508
• ISBN 13: 9780803253506
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162
• Editor: Link Frederick M.