Download or read book Aphra Behn A Voyage to the Isle of Love written by Aphra Behn and published by Portable Poetry. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn was a prolific and well established writer but facts about her remain scant and difficult to confirm. What can safely be said though is that Aphra Behn is now regarded as a key English playwright and a major figure in Restoration theatre. Aphra was born into the rising tensions to the English Civil War. Obviously a time of much division and difficulty as the King and Parliament, and their respective forces, came ever closer to conflict. There are claims she was a spy, that she travelled abroad, possibly as far as Surinam. By 1664 her marriage was over (though by death or separation is not known but presumably the former as it occurred in the year of their marriage) and she now used Mrs Behn as her professional name. Aphra now moved towards pursuing a more sustainable and substantial career and began work for the King's Company and the Duke's Company players as a scribe. Previously her only writing had been poetry but now she would become a playwright. Her first, "The Forc'd Marriage," was staged in 1670, followed by "The Amorous Prince" (1671). After her third play, "The Dutch Lover," Aphra had a three year lull in her writing career. Again it is speculated that she went travelling again, possibly once again as a spy. After this sojourn her writing moves towards comic works, which prove commercially more successful. Her most popular works included "The Rover" and "Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister" (1684-87). With her growing reputation Aphra became friends with many of the most notable writers of the day. This is The Age of Dryden and his literary dominance. From the mid 1680's Aphra's health began to decline. This was exacerbated by her continual state of debt and descent into poverty. Aphra Behn died on April 16th 1689, and is buried in the East Cloister of Westminster Abbey. The inscription on her tombstone reads: "Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be Defence enough against Mortality." She was quoted as stating that she had led a "life dedicated to pleasure and poetry."
Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn The lover s watch Poems upon several occasions A voyage to the Isle of love Lycidus or The lover in fashion Miscellaneous poems General index written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn Vol 6 written by Aphra Behn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. 6: The Lover's Watch; Poems Upon Several Occasions; A Voyage to the Isle of Love; Lycidus, or the Lover in Fashion; Miscellaneous Poems About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Poems upon several occasions with A voyage to the island of love written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems Upon Several Occasions with a Voyage to the Island of Love 1684 written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poems upon Several Occasions with a Voyage to the Island of Love written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aphra Behn and Her Female Successors written by Margarete Rubik and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2011 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays casts new light at Aphra Behn's poetry, drama, prose and literary criticism. The contributors analyse her creative response to the literary theories, genres and motifs of her age and point out remarkable analogies to the writings of her female successors, some of whom have not hitherto been viewed in relation to this Restoration pioneer of female authorship. Her influence on modern writers can still be felt in texts as diverse as Virginia Woolf's Orlando, Molly Brown's historical thriller set in Restoration England, and Joan Anim-Addo's adaptation of Oroonoko."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book The lover s watch Poems upon several occasions A voyage to the Isle of Love Lycidus or The lover in fashion Miscellaneous poems written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage to the Isle of Love written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aphra Behn written by Mary Ann O'Donnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography constitutes a thoroughly revised and more easily readable study of Behn's publications, of those edited or translated by her, of publications that included her works, and of writings ascribed to her, along with an annotated bibliography of over 1600 works about her from 1671 to 2001, with an unannotated update covering 2002. The augmented primary bibliography describes all known editions and issues of her works to 1702, and adds a catalogue of editions to 2002, including on-line sources. The secondary bibliography adds close to 1000 items published since 1984 to the original 600 of the first edition along with about 175 more from 1671 to 1984, with attention to materials not in English. New appendices include a list of dedicatees, actors, recent productions (with reviews), and provenances. This volume will be invaluable for book dealers, collectors and librarians, as well as students and scholars of Aphra Behn and of Restoration literature.
Download or read book The lover s watch Poems upon several occasions A voyage to the Isle of love Lycidus or The lover in fashion Miscellaneous poems General index written by Aphra Behn and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Aphra Behn v 4 Seneca Unmask d and Other Prose Translated written by Janet Todd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the fourth volume in a set of seven which comprises a complete edition of all her works.
Download or read book The Game of Love in Georgian England written by Sally Holloway and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught process. It provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of hair. It also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the Georgian era - most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine's card - revealing how love developed into a commercial industry. The book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courts. The Game of Love in Georgian England brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions. The book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objects. Love emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined rituals.
Download or read book The History of British Women s Writing 1610 1690 written by M. Suzuki and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventeenth century, in response to political and social upheavals such as the English Civil Wars, women produced writings in both manuscript and print. This volume represents recent scholarship that has uncovered new texts as well as introduced new paradigms to further our understanding of women's literary history during this period.
