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Behn often used her writings to attack the parliamentary Whigs claiming " In public spirits call ’ d, good o ’ th ’ Commonwealth … So tho ’ by different ways the fever seize … in all ’ tis one and the same mad disease.
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Behn and often
The veracity of her journey to Suriname has often been called into question ; however, enough evidence has been found to convince most Behn scholars today that the trip did indeed take place.
In the 1670s, only John Dryden had plays staged more often than Behn.
One of the features of a Restoration comedy is the opposition of the witty and courtly ( and Cavalier ) rake and the dull-witted man of business or the country bumpkin, who is understood to be not only unsophisticated but often ( as, for instance, in the very popular plays of Aphra Behn in the 1670s ) either Puritan or another form of dissenter.
Behn and used
The British writer Aphra Behn used " Astrea " as one of her code-names while working as a spy for King Charles II.
* Astrea, the pseudonym used by writer Aphra Behn
In her letters of correspondence ( later collected in three book anthologies ), Centlivre used Aphra Behn ’ s penname of Astraea as her own poetic name, claiming a great admiration for the " genius of Mrs. Aphra Behn ( the earlier Astraea ).
Behn and her
Shortly after her return to England in 1664 Aphra Johnson married Johan Behn, who was a merchant of German or Dutch extraction.
Like authors such as Aphra Behn and William Wordsworth, Cavendish reveals much about her intended audience, writing purpose and philosophy in her prefaces, prologues, epilogues and epistles to the reader.
In London he made acquaintance with Aphra Behn, who in 1672 cast him as the old king in her play, Forc'd Marriage, or The Jealous Bridegroom, at the Dorset Garden Theatre.
During her long career at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, she became known as the Second Woman of the English Stage after Aphra Behn.
" Behn is right to claim that her play is wittier, and literary history has endorsed her belief in her work.
Behn worked for Charles II as a spy during the outset of the Second Dutch War, ending up destitute when she returned to England, and even spending time in a debtors ' prison, because Charles failed to pay her properly, or at all.
Because Mrs. Behn was not available to correct or confirm any information, early biographers assumed the first-person narrator was Aphra Behn speaking for herself and incorporated the novel's claims into their accounts of her life.
Scholars speculate that Behn had this headdress from her time in Surinam.
Topographical and cultural verisimilitude were not a criterion for readers of novels and plays in Behn's day any more than in Thomas Kyd's, and Behn generally did not bother with attempting to be accurate in her locations in other stories.
Behn was a lifelong and militant royalist, and her fictions are quite consistent in portraying virtuous royalists and put-upon nobles who are opposed by petty and evil republicans / Parliamentarians.
It is also unlikely that Behn went to Surinam with her husband, although she may have met and married in Surinam or on the journey back to England.
Therefore, it is most likely that Behn and her family went to the colony in the company of a lady.
However, if Behn left Surinam in 1663, then she could have kept up with matters in the colony by reading the Exact Relation that Willoughby had printed in London in 1666, and seen in the extraordinary execution a barbarity to graft onto her villain, Byam, from the man who might have been her real employer, Willoughby.
Behn and writings
Tryon ’ s writings also impressed playwright Aphra Behn and vegetarian poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Behn and attack
Accompanied by his lover, the English author Aphra Behn, de Marbot reaches the Tower at the head of the River, only to die in combat when androids based on characters from " Through the Looking-Glass " attack the guests during a Lewis Carroll-themed party.
Behn and Whigs
Like most Tories, Behn was distrustful of Parliament and Whigs since the Revolution and wrote propaganda in support of the restored monarchy ( 248 ).
Behn and claiming
In the same year, Gildon wrote a biography of Aphra Behn, claiming to have been a close friend of hers.
Behn and ’
Though little is really known about Behn ’ s early years, evidence suggests that she may have had a Catholic upbringing.
" This was Behn ’ s reproach to parliament which had denied the king funds.
Behn paints a picture-perfect New World unspoiled by natives — one that contrasts with Dryden ’ s previous work.
Behn ’ s New World seems almost utopian as she describes how the people get along: “ with these People, … we live in perfect Tranquility, and good Understanding, as it behooves us to do .” This New World is unique during this period ; it is " simultaneously a marvelous prelapsarian paradise and the thoroughly commercialized crossroads of international trade ”.
In Juggling the Categories of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn ’ s Oroonoko, Ferguson states that Behn creates “ a textual staging of the implicit competition between the white English female author and the black African female slave-wife-mother-to-be ”.
Behn and d
* 1640 – ( baptism date ) – Aphra Behn, English playwright and novelist ( d. 1689 )
* July 10 – Aphra Behn, English author ( d. 1689 )
Behn and good
Behn achieved immediate literary success with his first collection of short stories, which received several good reviews and has sold more than 100, 000 copies.
Behn and Commonwealth
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.
Maud Angelica Behn is the fifth in line of succession to the Norwegian throne ; she is also seventy-second in the line of succession to the throne of each of the sixteen Commonwealth Realms.
The subplot of the latter was converted to a droll during the Commonwealth ; after the Stuart Restoration, either Aphra Behn or Thomas Betterton updated the main plot for The Revenge, or The Match in Newgate, although this adaptation makes the play both more sentimental and less morally complex.
Behn and by
Behn furthermore explored a realm of intrigue with letters that fall into the wrong hands, faked letters, letters withheld by protagonists, and even more complex interaction.
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.
It was adapted by Harry Behn and King Vidor ( uncredited ) from the play by Joseph Farnham and the autobiographical novel Plumes by Laurence Stallings, and directed by Vidor.
* The Rover ( play ) by Aphra Behn
A sketch of Aphra Behn by George Scharf from a portrait believed to be lost.
* Works by Aphra Behn listed at The Online Books Page
They are complemented by a bronze statue on the other side of the street, the Striding Antilope, by the sculptor Fritz Behn.
In the spring of 2011, Ari Behn made his debut as a playwright with Treningstimen, directed by Kim Sørensen and staged at Rogaland Teater.
* April 16-Aphra Behn, the first British woman to support herself by writing ( born 1640 )
Horn offers as early examples Abbot Gundeland's " Altenmünster " of Lorsch abbey ( 765-74 ), as revealed in the excavations by Frederich Behn ; Lorsch was adapted without substantial alteration from a Frankish nobleman's villa rustica, in a tradition unbroken from late Roman times.
Condado began its process of urbanization in 1908 by two American industrialists, Hernan and Sosthenes, also known as the Behn Brothers.
One example: The Debauchee by Aphra Behn ( printed 1677 ) is a rewrite of Brome's A Mad Couple Well-Match'd, down to the characters ' names.
For the plot of this he was again indebted to the novel by Aphra Behn.
Another, translated by Peter Beilenson with Harry Behn, reads:
The City Heiress is a play by Aphra Behn produced in 1682.
Category: Plays by Aphra Behn
The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn.
Category: Plays by Aphra Behn
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