Behn Five Plays - Aphra Behn & Maureen Duffy

Behn Five Plays

By Aphra Behn & Maureen Duffy

  • Release Date: 2014-03-20
  • Genre: Theater

Description

Aphra Behn was among the wittiest and most prolific playwrights of her day



The Widow Ranter is a tragi-comedy, The False Count concerns the marriage of a young woman to a much older man whilst The Lucky Chance ran into instant criticism for immorality. The Rover is her most famous comedy and Abdelazar is her only tragedy.
"Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common...All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn." (Virginia Woolf on Aphra Behn)