TY - BOOK
T1 - Plays 1682–1696
T2 - Volume 4. The Plays 1682–1696
A2 - Adcock, Rachel
A2 - Aughterson, Kate
A2 - Bowditch, Claire
A2 - Hobby, Elaine
A2 - Hogarth, Alan James
A2 - Pacheco, Anita
A2 - Rubik, Margaret
N1 - Winner of the Josephine Roberts Prize for a scholarly edition by the Society of Early Modern Women and Gender 2021 https://ssemwg.org/2021-awards/#:~:text=Josephine%20Roberts%20Award%20for%20a,IV%20(Cambridge%2C%202021).
PY - 2021/3/25
Y1 - 2021/3/25
N2 - Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic range and diversity. Her last five plays, written and performed between 1682 and 1696, include city comedies (The City-Heiress, The Luckey Chance), a farce (The Emperor of the Moon), a tragicomedy (The Widdow Ranter), and a comedy of family inheritance (The Younger Brother). These plays exemplify Behn's skills in writing for individual performers, and exhibit the topical political engagement for which she is renowned. They witness to Behn's popularity with theatre audiences during the politically and financially difficult years of the 1680s and even after her death. Informed by the most up-to-date research in computational attribution, this fully annotated edition draws on recent scholarship to provide a comprehensive guide to Behn's work, and the literary, theatrical and political history of the Restoration.
AB - Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Her career in the Restoration theatre extended over two decades, encompassing remarkable generic range and diversity. Her last five plays, written and performed between 1682 and 1696, include city comedies (The City-Heiress, The Luckey Chance), a farce (The Emperor of the Moon), a tragicomedy (The Widdow Ranter), and a comedy of family inheritance (The Younger Brother). These plays exemplify Behn's skills in writing for individual performers, and exhibit the topical political engagement for which she is renowned. They witness to Behn's popularity with theatre audiences during the politically and financially difficult years of the 1680s and even after her death. Informed by the most up-to-date research in computational attribution, this fully annotated edition draws on recent scholarship to provide a comprehensive guide to Behn's work, and the literary, theatrical and political history of the Restoration.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/renaissance-and-early-modern-literature/plays-16821696-volume-4
M3 - Scholarly edition
SN - 9781108840743
VL - 4
T3 - The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn
BT - Plays 1682–1696
PB - Cambridge University Press
CY - Cambridge
ER -