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Aphra opens on 17th-century playwright Aphra Behn writing feverishly in her small, poorly furnished room. The weather is cold and bleak and she is seriously ill. It is two days before her death. The moral forces that would silence her and banish her to oblivion have never been stronger. In her agitated mind those forces have taken on form and substance in the unbending, menacing figures of Morality Man and Morality Woman, who threaten to overwhelm her. But her dearest friends, Betty Currer and Mary Betterton, are close by, ready to reassure her and nurse her through her fevers and demons. The first Englishwoman to earn her living by her pen, Aphra Behn challenged the popular expectations placed upon 17th-century women. Aphra Behn had travelled to the Americas, spied for King Charles the Second and spent time in debtors' prison all by the age of 30. In 1670, the production of her play The Forced Marriage launched her as a playwright and the first English woman writer to earn a living solely through her pen. The Forced Marriage introduced a major theme in her work that marriage for socioeconomic reasons, in the interests of a stable society, was immoral. Aphra Behn believed that love for women as well as men should be free, unhampered by convention or control of any sort. Seventeen of her plays were produced in her lifetime, mostly bawdy comedies that scandalized the audiences of the day. All were well crafted, entertaining, filled with memorable characters and wonderfully stageable. In addition to playwrighting, she wrote poetry and a number of novels that preceded Dafoe, usually considered the first English novelist, by nearly half a century. Aphra Behn was an individualist in her writing and her life who challenged the popular expectations placed upon seventeenth-century women.
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- PublisherFrontenac House
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1927823455
- ISBN 13 9781927823453
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages92
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Book Description [978-1-927823-45-3] 1997 2015. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 91pp. 8vo. As new. The narrative, written as a play, of Aphra Behn, the first Englishwoman to earn her living by her pen and who challenged all expectations placed upon women of the 17th century. In collaboration withAphra Behn. Seller Inventory # 129477
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