41. Poets' Corner - Aphra Behn - Selected Works Selectd Works by poet aphra behn. And sett him up a Deity;; But my poor Heart alone is harm d,; Whilst thine the Victor is, and free. aphra behn http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/behn01.html

P.C. Home Page Recent Additions Poets: A B C D E F G H ... Y Z Love Arm'd L OVE in Fantastique Triumph satt, Whilst bleeding Hearts around him flow'd, For whom Fresh pains he did create, And strange Tryanic power he show'd; From thy Bright Eyes he took his fire, Which round about, in sport he hurl'd; But 'twas from mine he took desire, Enough to undo the Amorous World. From me he took his sighs and tears, From thee his Pride and Crueltie; From me his Languishments and Feares, And every Killing Dart from thee; Thus thou and I, the God have arm'd, And sett him up a Deity; But my poor Heart alone is harm'd, Whilst thine the Victor is, and free. Aphra Behn A Thousand Martyrs I Have Made A THOUSAND Martyrs I have made, All sacrific'd to my desire; A thousand Beauties have betray'd, That languish in resistless Fire. The untam'd Heart to hand I brought, And fixt the wild and wandring Thought. I never vow'd nor sigh'd in vain But both, thô false, were well receiv'd. The Fair are pleas'd to give us pain, And what they wish is soon believ'd. And thô I talked of Wounds and Smart

42. The San Antonio College LitWeb Aphra Behn Page About behn Victoria SackvilleWest, aphra behn The Incomparable Astraea. Viking, 1928. aphra behn Society. Several links. aphra behn Criticism from http://www.accd.edu/Sac/English/bailey/behn.htm

The Aphra Behn Page Major Works . There are three inexpensive volumes of Behn's works available: Oroonoko and Other Writings . Edited with an introduction by Paul Salzman. Oxford, 1994. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister . Edited and introduced by Janet Todd. Penguin, Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works .Edited by Janet Todd. Penguin, 1992. Drama The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers The City Heiress On Line The Widow Ranter; or, the History of Bacon in America Fiction Love Letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister Oroonoko Annotated Bibliography On Line . Also a Norton Critical Edition, Joanna Lipking, Editor. Norton, 1997. The Fair Jilt The History of the Nun " The Adventure of the Black Lady " ( 1696 ). " The Unfortunate Bride " ( 1696 ). The Unfortunate Happy Lady On-Line Love-Letters to a Gentleman Poetry Poems on Several Occasions About Behn Victoria Sackville-West, Aphra Behn: The Incomparable Astraea . Viking, 1928. Aphra Behn Society . Several links. Aphra Behn Criticism from Internet Public Library. The Aphra Behn Page The Incomparable Astrea. . .

43. Aphra Behn: Free Web Books, Online aphra behn, 16401689. Biographical note. Novelist and dramatist, daughter of a barber named Johnston, but went with a relative whom she called father to http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/behn/aphra/

The University of Adelaide Library eBooks Help Aphra Behn, 1640-1689 Biographical note Novelist and dramatist, daughter of a barber named Johnston, but went with a relative whom she called father to Surinam, of which he had been appointed Governor. He, however, died on the passage thither, and her childhood and youth were passed there. She became acquainted with the celebrated slave Oronoko, afterwards the hero of one of her novels. Returning to England in 1658 she married Behn, a Dutch merchant, but was a widow at the age of 26. She then became attached to the Court, and was employed as a political spy at Antwerp. Leaving that city she cultivated the friendship of various playwrights, and produced many plays and novels, also poems and pamphlets. The former are extremely gross, and are now happily little known. She was the first English professional authoress. Among her plays are The Forced Marriage Abdelazer The Rover The Debauchee , etc., and her novels include Oronoko and The Nun . The former of these was the first book to bring home to the country a sense of the horrors of slavery, for which let her have credit. From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910

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Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog Portrait by Mary Beale c.1670 2 pictures add a picture Author: Aphra Behn Also known as: Behn Aphra Aphra; Todd, Janet M. Behn Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Aphra Behn combine/separate works 321 copies, 4 reviews Oroonoko, The rover, and other works 158 copies, review The rover 107 copies, 1 review Oroonoko, and other writings 74 copies, review 60 copies, review 52 copies, review 14 copies, review 9 copies, review The lucky chance, or, The alderman's bargain 7 copies, review The Lover's Watch 6 copies, 1 review The Works of Aphra Behn: Poetry 4 copies, review 4 copies, review 3 copies, review 3 copies, review The works of Aphra Behn 3 copies, review see all 32 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know. view history You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. For more help see the Common Knowledge help page Canonical name Gender female Date of birth Date of death Burial location Westminster Abbey, London, England, UK

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47. Love Arm'd -- Love Arm’d, Aphra Behn & Her Pen aphra smiling The Plot As she prepares to leave him, the famous playwright aphra behn puts a curse on John Hoyle he will have to remember everything about http://www.lovearmd.com/aphra.html

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48. Aphra Behn In Surinam aphra learned the history, and acquired a knowledge of the African prince Oroonoko and his beloved Imoinda, whose adventures she has related in http://www.nndb.com/people/095/000031999/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Aphra Behn AKA Aphra Johnson Born: 10-Jul Birthplace: Wye, London, England Died: 16-Apr Location of death: London, England Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Westminster Abbey Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Playwright Spy Nationality: England Executive summary: Oroonoko, the History of the Royal Slave British dramatist and novelist, baptized at Wye, Kent, in 1640. Her father, John Johnson, was a barber. While still a child she was taken out to Surinam, then an English possession, from which she returned to England in 1658, when it was handed over to the Dutch. In Surinam Aphra learned the history, and acquired a knowledge of the African prince Oroonoko and his beloved Imoinda, whose adventures she has related in her novel, Oroonoko . On her return she married Mr. Behn, a London merchant of Dutch extraction. The wit and abilities of Mrs. Behn brought her into high estimation at court, and her husband having died by this time King Charles II employed her on secret service in the Netherlands during the Dutch war. At Antwerp she successfully accomplished the objects of her mission; and in the latter end of 1666 she wormed out of one Van der Aalbert the design formed by De Ruyter, in conjunction with the DeWitts, of sailing up the Thames and burning the English ships in their harbors. This she communicated to the English court, but although the event proved her intelligence to have been well founded, it was at the time disregarded. Disgusted with political service, she returned to England, and from this period she appears to have supported herself by her writings. Among her numerous plays are

49. Aphra Behn Criticism aphra behn 1640?–1689. (Pseudonym of aphra Johnson or aphra Amis; also Aphara, Ayfara, and Afray; also wrote under the pseudonyms Astrea and Astraea) http://www.enotes.com/poetry-criticism/behn-aphra

utmSetVar('lit_all'); Aphra Behn Criticism and Essays Welcome, guest! Login Join eNotes Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Literature Science History Business ... Z Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page Aphra Behn 1640?–1689 (Pseudonym of Aphra Johnson or Aphra Amis; also Aphara, Ayfara, and Afray; also wrote under the pseudonyms Astrea and Astraea) English dramatist, novelist, poet, essayist, and translator. INTRODUCTION Willing to endure seventeenth-century society's disapproval of women writing for pay, Behn became the first female to earn her living solely as an author, openly competing for recognition with the male writers who comprised the English literary establishment. Her works, like the literary endeavors of her male contemporaries, catered to the libertine tastes of King Charles II and his supporters through social and political satire as well as plots involving amorous intrigues and sexual promiscuity. Behn's verse, which tends to be less coarse than her dramas, often focuses either on lovers or the historical events of the era. Her most studied poems challenge social mores by freely discussing female sexual desire and questioning gender roles. Biographical Information Most critical studies of Behn speculate about her early life, but Behn's birthplace and date of birth, as well as the identity of her parents, have never been conclusively established. However, it is generally agreed that she and her family sailed to Surinam in South America, most likely in 1663, and that her father, who had been appointed lieutenant-governor there, died en route. Behn lived in Surinam for several months before the Dutch takeover, and her impressions of the country were later recorded in her novel

50. Lazy Luddite Log: Who Her name is aphra behn and she is fantastic. Or rather, in keeping with the nature of crushes, it is the impression I have formed of her that is fantastic. http://lazyludditelog.blogspot.com/2006/08/who-is-aphra-behn.html

is Aphra Behn? @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?targetBlogID=19268887"); Lazy Luddite Log Intended to be more a website than a weblog in the sense that I want to post particular topics that are non-time specific rather than have lots of "today I did this..." kind of stuff. But as a technophobic slacker I am using Blogger as a kind of 'short cut' to having a proper web site. Who is Aphra Behn? I have gone and done something rather foolish: I have developed a crush on someone from the 1600s! Her name is Aphra Behn and she is fantastic. Or rather, in keeping with the nature of crushes, it is the impression I have formed of her that is fantastic. How accurate that impression is, is very much a matter of conjecture, for the life of Aphra is very much a maze or mirrors. It all started some weeks ago. I happened to be visiting Wikipedia and glanced at the 'Feature Article' of that day. It was on the novel Oroonoko (1688) written by one Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) who is described as "the first professional female dramatist and novelist" in English history and also as someone who worked as a spy for Charles II. Her historical significance as a writer was only part of what attracted me. The notion of a 'she-spy' practicing her art in cavalier times fired my imagination, which I had recently been feeding with swashbuckling movies, and I resolved to get to know Aphra better.

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52. Glbtq >> Literature >> Behn, Aphra British dramatist, novelist, and poet aphra behn was known to her contemporaries as a scandal for both her writings and her flamboyant personal life. http://www.glbtq.com/literature/behn_a.html

Encyclopedia Discussion Forgot Your Password? Not a Member Yet? JOIN TODAY. IT'S FREE! Advertising Opportunities Terms of Service Alpha Index: A-B C-F G-K L-Q ... T-Z Subjects: A-B C-E F-L M-Z Behn, Aphra (ca 1640-1689) page: Aphra Behn, known to her contemporaries as a "scandal" for both her writings and her flamboyant personal life, was one of the most influential dramatists of the late seventeenth century. Today, she is better known as a poet and novelist than playwright, and her extraordinary biography remains intriguing. Her birth name and parentage is a mystery. She was probably born in Wye, in 1640. Speculations about her early life include the possibility of several sets of parents. A biographical essay by "One of the Fair Sex," affixed to the collection of The Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn (1696), maintains that Aphra was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson of Canterbury, whom Aphra accompanied, along with a young boy supposed to be her brother, on a voyage to the West Indies in 1663. Johnson, who was to have had an official appointment, died on the way. The mother and two children lived for a while in Surinam, then a Dutch possession, and Behn's most famous novel, Oronooko or The Royal Slave (1688), is based on her experiences there.

53. Aphra Behn Bio aphra behn broke every rule. She was a spy, she was a writer, she was thrown in prison several times for her debts and her politics, she may or may not have http://www.nyct.net/cosmicleopard/Behn_bio.html

Aphra Behn July 1640 - April 16, 1689, London Aphra Behn broke every rule. She was a spy, she was a writer, she was thrown in prison several times for her debts and her politics, she may or may not have been married and she had a live-in lover for nine years. Her origin a mystery, an unidentified child named Aphra traveled with a couple named Amis to Surinam (Dutch Guiana), then an English possession. Upon her return to England around the time of the Restoration, she may have married a London merchant named Behn. Her wit and beauty caught the eye of the royal court and she was employed by Charles II in secret service in The Netherlands. Unrewarded, and imprisoned for debt, she began to write to support herself. From 1670 until her death in 1689, Aphra Behn enjoyed commercial triumph. Her witty, vivacious comedies, such as The Rover (two parts, produced 1677 and 1681) and The Lucky Chance , were highly successful. She was well read, fluent in French and Italian with some Spanish, and she often adapted work by older dramatists. Her versatility, like her output, was immense, and in her day was rivaled only by that of her friend and colleague, John Dryden. Aphra Behn is considered the first professional English woman writer and originator of the novel in its modern form. This honor is often bestowed on Daniel Defoe, but Aphra Behn's

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55. Feminism And Women's Studies: Memoir Of Aphra Behn Montague Summers account of the personal history of aphra behn, the first Englishwoman to earn her livelihood by authorship. http://18th.eserver.org/feminism/memoir-of-aphra-behn.txt

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- Select One - Author Title Tags $9.99 Ebook DVDs and a Monkey Olympia Press Disruptive Publishing Akashic Books ... Western (123) Sort results by: Select... Author Name Book Title A B C D ... Z [First] [Prev] Page of pages [Next] [Last] ABDELAZER, OR THE Moor's Revenge Behn, Aphra v. 1. Introduction, by M. Summers. The rover; or, The banish'd cavaliers. The Dutch lover. The Round Tags: Excerpts Scores. Tragedies. Adventure of the Black Lady A Novel, The ... Behn, Aphra Description not available. Tags: No Tags Amorous Prince, OR, THE Curious Husband, THE Behn, Aphra Description not available. Tags: No Tags City Heiress, The Behn, Aphra Bibliography: p. 336-341. Tags: No Tags Debauchee: OR, THE Credulous Cuckold, A COMEDY, THE Behn, Aphra Description not available. Tags: No Tags Debauchee: OR, THE Credulous Cuckold, A COMEDY, THE

57. RPO -- Selected Poetry Of Aphra Behn (1640-1689) “behn, aphra (1640?1689).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Given name aphra Family name behn Birth date 14 December 1640 http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/21.html

Poet Index Poem Index Random Search ... Concordance document.writeln(divStyle) Selected Poetry of Aphra Behn (1640-1689) from Representative Poetry On-line Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967. RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries Index to poems But oh! what envious Gods conspire To snatch his Pow'r, yet leave him the Desire! (The Disappointment, 79-80) The Disappointment Epitaph on the Tombstone of a Child Song from Abdelazar (Love in fantastic triumph sat) Notes on Life and Works Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Biographical information Given name : Aphra Family name : Behn Birth date : 14 December 1640 Death date : 16 April 1689 Nationality : English Literary period : Restoration Buried at : Westminister Abbey Your comments and questions are welcomed.

58. Juggernaut Theatre | FIRST 100 YEARS: Aphra Behn Bibliography aphra behn’s The Emperor of the Moon Staging SeventeenthCentury Farce for Twentieth-Century Tastes. Essays in Theatre/Etudes Théâtrales 14.2 (1996) http://www.juggernaut-theatre.org/first100years/behnbiblio.html

about us current productions past productions arts gym ... join our mailing list FIRST 100 YEARS: The Professional Female Playwright Aphra Behn Bibliography Biographies Goreau, Angeline. Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn New York: Doubleday, 1980. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn New Jersey: Rutgers University Press,1997. Plays Behn, Aphra. The Works of Aphra Behn Janet Todd, ed. London: W. Pickering, 1992. Behn, Aphra. Aphra Behn: The Rover and Other Plays. Janet Spencer, ed. New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1998. General Akalaitis, Jo Anne. "From the First Rehearsal [The Rover]." Guthrie Program Magazine , Summer 1994, 24. Carlson, Susan. "Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon: Staging Seventeenth-Century Farce for Twentieth-Century Tastes." Carlson, Susan. "Cannibalizing and Carnivalizing: Reviving Aphra Behn’s The Rover." Theatre Journal 47.4 (December 1995): 517-539. Feldwick, Arlen. "Wits, Whigs, and Women: Domestic Politics as Anti-Whig Rhetoric in Aphra Behn’s Town Comedies." Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women.

59. Aphra Behn Biography A biography of English dramatist, poetess, and novel writer aphra behn. http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/aphra_behn_001.html

Home Ancient Theatre Medieval Theatre 16th Century ... 20th Century APHRA BEHN APHRA BEHN was an English dramatist, poetess, and novel writer, highly popular in the reign of Charles II, when nothing could exceed the licentiousness of the public stage, but the licentiousness of private manners. She continued to reside for some time in Antwerp, and is said to have entered all the gaieties and gallantries of the city. Why she returned to England does not appear; but sailing from Dunkirk she was wrecked on our coast, and was only saved by boats from the shore. At this period she could not have been much more than twenty-three or twenty-four years old, and it seems probable that during the rest of her life she was mainly indebted to her pen for support. That she was a woman of beauty and gallantry cannot be doubted; and it is asserted, with some appearance of truth, that she devoted herself much to the pleasures of the town. Two of her plays were printed in 1671, The Amorous Prince and The Forced Marriage; and between that year and 1687, she produced no fewer than thirteen other comedies or tragi-comedies, and one tragedy, entitled

60. [EMLS 3.3 (January, 1998): 12.1-11] Review Of Shakespeare, Aphra Behn And The Ca Nancy Bunker reviews the WR Owens and Lizbeth Goodman book. http://extra.shu.ac.uk/emls/03-3/rev_bun.html

W. R. Owens and Lizbeth Goodman, eds. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon . London: Routledge, 1996. v+346 pp. ISBN 415 13576 Paper. Nancy Bunker Southwest Missouri State University nmb088f@nic.smsu.edu Bunker, Nancy. "Review of Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon ." Early Modern Literary Studies http://purl.oclc.org/emls/03-3/rev_bun.html Ongoing discussions about the literary canon the "body of texts and writers traditionally regarded as 'great' and thus possessing special authority" continually ask teachers, students, and critics to reevaluate their views connected with it. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon is a collection of essays which both introduces the concept of the canon and also includes aspects of performance that affect canonical investigation; it is one of four texts in the series Approaching Literature , designed to introduce students to various aspects of literary study. Owens and Goodman succeed in composing an attractive and engaging text for undergraduate students as they suggest several lines of inquiry a student may use to examine the concept, definition, and the changing environment that collectively engender canonization. In the Preface , the editors explain their choices of Shakespeare, the "most celebrated example of a 'canonical' author," and Aphra Behn, "one of the leading playwrights of her time" but not currently accepted into the canon, as foundations for this text. This course text-book examination contains two parts. Part I consists of seven chapters; the first and last, written by Goodman, address themselves specifically to the canon, and the middle chapters, each written by a different author, concentrate on Shakespeare as a theatre poet

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