Aphra Behn was the first woman to earn her living in England as a writer. An early - and outspoken - feminist, she was also a notable Restoration playwright, novelist and poet. This edition brings together for the first time her most important writings, focusing principally on the plays written during the era of Restoration comedy, a genre now enjoying enormous popular revival. Alongside the dramatic works, Dr Lyons has included works which vividly recount travels, love-affairs, literary allegiances, all couched in the ample idiom of her libertine wisdom, and which richly illustrate her views on feminism and professionalism. Modern spelling and punctuation are used throughout the texts.
- ISBN10 0631148655
- ISBN13 9780631148654
- Publish Date 31 October 1991
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English