The Theatre of Aphra Behn

2001. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-333-76030-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

During the nineteen years of her play-writing career, Aphra Behn had far more new plays staged than anyone else. This book is the first to examine all her theatrical work. It explains her often dominant place in the complex theatrical culture of Charles II's reign, her divided political sympathies, and her interests as a free-thinking intellectual. It also reveals her as a brilliant theatrical practitioner, who used the seen as richly and significantly as the spoken.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hughes, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Background First Attempt First Impact Experimentation Maturity Political Crisis Political Triumph Death and Famine 'Tho she is now no more' Conclusion Bibliography Appendix Index

Über Autor(innen)

DEREK HUGHES is a Reader at the University of Warwick. He has published extensively on Restoration drama, his most recent book being , a study of the entire corpus of late seventeenth-century plays.