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Aphra Behn
Behn, Aphra
Behn, Aphra (1640–89) English playwright, poet, and novelist – the first English professional female writer. A proto-feminist, Behn attracted much contemporary scandal. She produced 15 risqué comic plays, the most well-known being
The Rover (1677). She also wrote poetry under an assumed name, but is principally remembered for the first English philosophical novel,
Oroonoko (1688), an anti-slavery love story.
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Aphra Behn.
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...London, 1930) Virginia Woolf gave Aphra Behn a special position in the history...living by her wits" (61). Thus, Aphra Behn appropriated the literary profession...contradictory oeuvre. This makes Aphra Behn so important for the twentieth...
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APHRA BEHN...AND HER PEN
Magazine article from: The Hunter Envoy; 11/13/2002; ; 683 words
; ...order to support herself. Thus, Aphra Behn, as we know her today, is born...writer. Karen Eterovich starred as Aphra Behn in her one-woman performance of Love Arm'd: Aphra Behn & Her Pen, an Off-Off Broadway...
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Aphra Behn's English Feminism: Wit and Satire.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Aphra Behn's English Feminism: Wit and Satire...1999. 231 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. Aphra Behn's recent installation in the English...establishing her historical context, and now, in Aphra Behn's English Feminism, Dolors Altaba...
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Derek Hughes, The Theatre of Aphra Behn.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Serious re-evaluation of the works of Aphra Behn has virtually exploded in the past...biography, and the formation of the Aphra Behn Society in the United States. Given...this reason alone, The Theatre of Aphra Behn is a welcome and long overdue contribution...
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Behn's the widow Ranter.(Aphra Behn)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: The Explicator; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Aphra Behn's posthumously published tragicomedy...carry her name. KEYWORDS Nathaniel Bacon, Aphra Behn, The Widow Ranter, women in seventeenth...literature WORKS CITED Kavenik, Frances. M. Aphra Behn: The Playwright as 'Breeches Part...
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Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism.
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 7/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn," her rallying cry did not go unanswered...on early British women writers, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) became the newly...articles and book chapters, Rereading Aphra Behn is actually the first published collection...
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The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Ed. by DEREK HUGHES and JANET TODD. Cambridge: Cambridge...already familiar with the subject. This Companion to Aphra Behn, the increasingly canonical late seventeenth-century...
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Truth, wonder, and exemplarity in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...central issue in the discussion of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave...suggests, I believe that reading Behn as a participant in and conservator...Epistle Dedicatory" of Oroonoko, Aphra Behn commends her sponsor, Lord Maitland...
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Aphra Behn's Miscellanies: The Politics and Poetics of Editing.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; In the 1680s Aphra Behn published widely in many genres, including...contributors.(1) By editing miscellanies, Behn demonstrated her membership in a number...production.(2) The range of contributors to Behn's volumes, the subjects of the poems...
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The variety of male desire in Aphra Behn's prose fiction/Aphra Behn'in Romanlarinda erkek arzusunun cesitliligi.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Interactions; 3/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; If we try to answer the question why Aphra Behn (1640-1689), one of the most important women...Therefore it is sensible to discuss desire while analyzing Behn's writings. Behn scholars are more interested in the representation...
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Behn, Aphra (c. 1640–1689)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
BEHN, APHRA (c. 1640 – 1689) BEHN, APHRA (c. 1640 – 1689), English writer. Aphra Behn was the first female writer to produce a substantial dramatic...
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Aphra Behn
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Aphra Behn English poet, novelist, and playwright Aphra Behn (c. 1640-1689) was the first of her...living as a writer in the English language. Aphra Behn was a successful author at a time when...
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Behn, Aphra
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Behn, Aphra (1640–89). Dramatist and novelist, Aphra Behn was born on 10 July 1640 at Wye, Kent. Her early childhood, spent in the...
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Behn, Mrs Afra
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Behn, Mrs Afra or Mrs Aphra Behn (1640–89), was employed in 1666 by Charles II as a spy in Antwerp in the Dutch war. Her first play, The Forced Marriage (1670) was followed by some 14 others, including her most popular, The...
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Duffy, Maureen (Patricia)
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...1972. The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn 1640-1689. London, Cape, 1977...Oroonoko and Other Stories , by Aphra Behn. London, Methuen, 1986. Editor...1987. Editor, Five Plays , by Aphra Behn. London, Methuen, 1990. Translator...
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