Topic: Aphra Behn

Taken separately, each couple appears somewhat absurd in their relation to one another (perhaps excluding Florinda and Bellville), but this is important because Behn uses the contrast to compare different points of view concerning marriage, love and the power of patriarchal society ...

Biography: Aphra Behn

When asked for the name of the first woman writer of note in English, many people would plump for Jane Austen and then be hard pressed to think of anyone earlier. However, a hundred years before Jane Austen was born, Restoration England ...

20 famous money quotes

??Money quotes 5 by Peg Bracken??Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? ??Money quotes 10 by Aphra Behn??Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand. ??Money ...

Who is Aphra Behn?

Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is a noted British novelist , poet , and playwright who is believed to have been Britain's first professional female writer. She has been credited with greatly advancing the cause of female authors in the British literary tradition, with noted ...

What is an Epistolary Novel?

An epistolary novel is also called a novel of letters, because the narration takes place in the form of letters, possibly journal entries, and occasionally newspaper reports. This means the story can be told and interpreted from numerous viewpoints.The first true ...

Becoming a Satire Female Author

Satire is an artistic form in which an individual's vices, folly, abuses, or shortcomings are made to stand out to criticize by using irony, ridicule, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to bring about improvement. Even though satire is usually ...

Or,

quoth Aphra Behn, and so this earliest of published lady-playwrights made her raucous preparations for heaven. In the insouciant farce Or, (the title winks at double-barreled titles then and now), Liz Duffy Adams imagines Behn (Siff) mewed up in debtor's prison ...

Maggie Siff

Siff is currently portraying Aphra Behn, the Restoration-era writer credited as being the first professional female playwright, in Liz Duffy Adams's frothy, sex-positive farce Or, (the comma is part of the title). "That's just never an issue with a female ...

IMHOTEPS GUIDE TO BLACK EVENTS

A calendar of entertainment events regarding blacks for the New York area in February and March 2008 is presented, which includes plays titled " CLOSING FEB 24 (Broadway Theatre, 1681 Broadway southwest earner of Broadway and 53rd St. (212) 563-2929 www.broadway.org ...

Aphra Behn

April 16, 1689, London), English dramatist, fiction writer, and poet who was the first Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing.. One tradition identifies Behn as the child known only as Ayfara or Aphra who traveled in the 1650s with a ...