* 1640 – ( baptism date ) – Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist ( d. 1689 )

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

* July 10 – Aphra Behn, English author ( d. 1689 )

* April 16 – Aphra Behn, English author ( b. 1640 )

The British writer Aphra Behn used " Astrea " as one of her code-names while working as a spy for King Charles II.

Other notable poets of the era include Ben Jonson, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Aphra Behn, Thomas Carew, John Suckling, Richard Lovelace, John Milton, Richard Crashaw, and Henry Vaughan.

* The Rover ( play ) by Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn ( baptised 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689 ) was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers.

A sketch of Aphra Behn by George Scharf from a portrait believed to be lost.

Shortly after her return to England in 1664 Aphra Johnson married Johan Behn, who was a merchant of German or Dutch extraction.

The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn.

* Aphra Behn is the subject of Liz Duffy Adams 2009 play " Or ".

* Aphra Behn is mentioned in Patrick O ' Brian's fifth Aubrey-Maturin novel, Desolation Island.

* Works by Aphra Behn listed at The Online Books Page

* The Aphra Behn page at list-arts. net

* The Sign of Angellica: An Aphra Behn Site

* The Complete Works of Aphra Behn on e-book

* The Aphra Behn Society

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* A Piece of Eight – Storytellers, Noah, Mama Noah, Japeth, Yonah, Ham, Shem, Aphra & Aysha

– Noah, Mama Noah, Japeth, Ham, Shem, Aphra & Aysha

* The Hour of Darkness – Noah, Mama Noah, Japeth, Yonah, Ham, Shem, Aphra & Aysha

The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn.

During the reign of Charles II ( 1660 – 1685 ), playwrights such as John Dryden, George Etherege, Aphra Behn, and William Wycherley wrote comedies that triumphantly reassert aristocratic dominance and prestige after the years of middle class power during Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth.

Aphra Behn, John Denham, George Etheridge, Andrew Marvell, inter al.

Fop characters appear in many Restoration comedies, including Sir Fopling Flutter in George Etherege's The Man of Mode, or Sir Fopling Flutter ( 1676 ), Aphra Behn's diatribe against politic marriages, The Town Fop ( 1676, published 1677 ), and Lord Foppington in The Relapse ( 1696 ) by John Vanbrugh.

He was interested in the theater of the seventeenth century, particularly that of the English Restoration, and edited the plays of Aphra Behn, John Dryden, William Congreve, among others.

Anne Bracegirdle appearing in John Dryden's The Indian Queen in a headdress of feathers purportedly given by Aphra Behn to Thomas Killigrew.

The original cast production of Children of Eden was developed as a Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) workshop, directed by John Caird, and starring Ken Page as Father, Richard Lloyd-King as Snake, Martin Smith as Adam, Shezwae Powell as Eve, Adrian Beaumont as Cain, Kevin Colson as Noah, Earlene Bentley as Mama Noah, Frances Ruffelle as Yonah, Anthony Barclay as Japeth, Craig Pinder as Shem, Ray Shell as Ham, Hiromi Itoh as Aysha and Ruthie Henshall as Aphra.

Among the early foreign companies that located their offices on Beach Street were the Netherlands Trading Society, the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation ( HSBC ), the Chartered Bank, Boustead & Co., Guthne & Co., Caldbeck & Macgregor, Behn Meyer, Sandilands & Buttery, G. H.

* Behn, A., Gallagher, C., & Stern, S. ( 2000 ).

Willmore ( who may have been a parallel to Charles II or John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester ) proved to be an extremely popular character, and four years later Behn wrote a sequel to the play.

In the 1670s, only John Dryden had plays staged more often than Behn.

At the time, however, he was a social correspondent with John Dryden and William Wycherley, as well as Behn, and he lived a courtly lifestyle.

" Sex, Lies, and Invisibility: Amatory Fiction from Behn to Haywood ", in The Columbia History of the British Novel John J. Richetti, Ed.