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Kate Aughterson provides readers with an approachable and fascinating critical guide to the dramatic works of an important seventeenth-century woman writer. Aughterson analyses Aphra Behn's abilities as a playwright, showing particularly how she skillfully employs comic and dramatic conventions to radical ends, and how she forces her audience to engage with issues about gender and sexuality whilst retaining her witty and accessible style. Chapters in the first part of the book provide close readings of the comedies, addressing such topics as openings, endings, character types, staging, and politics and society. In the second part, Aughterson not only examines Behn's literary career and the Restoration contexts of her plays, but also looks at some sample criticism and explores Behn's drama as performance.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Aphra Behn: The Comedies
• Author: Kate Aughterson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 259
• EAN: 9780333963210
• ISBN: 0333963210
• ID: 01327332
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 346 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 142 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. May 2003

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