The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V includes the following: THE BLACK LADY - THE KING OF BANTAM THE UNFORTUNATE HAPPY LADY - THE FAIR JILT OROONOKO - AGNES DE CASTRO THE HISTORY OF THE NUN - THE NUN THE LUCKY MISTAKE - THE UNFORTUNATE BRIDE THE DUMB VIRGIN - THE WANDERING BEAUTY THE UNHAPPY MISTAKE
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V includes the following: THE BLACK LADY - THE KING OF BANTAM THE UNFORTUNATE HAPPY LADY - THE FAIR JILT OROONOKO - AGN...
"Oroonoko the Royal Slave" from Aphra Behn. Prolific dramatist of the English Restoration, one of the first English professional female literary writers (1640-1689).
"Oroonoko the Royal Slave" from Aphra Behn. Prolific dramatist of the English Restoration, one of the first English professional female literary write...
Aphra Behn (1640-89) was a popular poet, author of the influential novel Oroonoko, and one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theater. Behn led an unusually active and eventful life for a woman of her era, traveling widelyto Surinam in 1663 and to Antwerp in 1666, where Charles II sent her as a spy during the Anglo-Dutch war. Returning to England she spent some time in a debtor's prison and subsequently devoted herself to writing, publishing numerous poems and almost twenty plays between 1670 and 1689.
Because of the overtly political nature of her work, much of...
Aphra Behn (1640-89) was a popular poet, author of the influential novel Oroonoko, and one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration the...
