Aphra Behn (/ˈæfrə bɛn/; bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era...

"The Disappointment" is a poem written by Aphra Behn. It was first published in 1680 (see 1680 in poetry) in the Earl of Rochester's Poems on Several Occasions...

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn (1640–1689), published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions...

(died 1692) was a bisexual lawyer in London and a lover of the writer Aphra Behn. Behn's relationship with Hoyle was the "dominating one" in her life. John...

Aphra may refer to: Aphra Behn (1640–1689), English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator Doctor Aphra, a fictional character in the Star Wars...

Cavaliers is a play in two parts that is written by the English author Aphra Behn. It is a revision of Thomas Killigrew's play Thomaso, or The Wanderer...

celebrity actors. The period saw the first professional female playwright, Aphra Behn. Charles II was an active and interested patron of drama. Soon after his...

Dorset dominated verse, and all were attached to the court of Charles. Aphra Behn, Matthew Prior, and Robert Gould, by contrast, were outsiders who were...

Behn may refer to: Aphra Behn (c. 1640 – 1689), English dramatist Ari Behn (1972–2019), Norwegian author and husband to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway...

short novella by Aphra Behn published by Will Canning in 1688, a year before Behn's death. The plot is loosely based around rumors Behn had heard regarding...

English Rogue (1665), that feature brothels, while women authors like Aphra Behn had offered their heroines alternative careers as precursors of the 19th-century...

the Angel Gabriel, the two are on the verge of war. The British writer Aphra Behn used "Astrea" as one of her code-names while working as a spy for King...

anonymously in three volumes (1684, 1685, and 1687), and has been attributed to Aphra Behn though its authorship remains disputed in the 21st century. The novel...

or /æbdəˈlɑːzə/) is a 1676 play by Aphra Behn, an adaptation of the c. 1600 tragedy Lust's Dominion. It is Behn's only tragic play. Abdelazer is a captive...

(2004-11-25). "Behn's dramatic response to Restoration politics". In Hughes, Derek; Todd, Janet (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Cambridge University...

satires from the time relate a tale of Gwyn, with the help of her friend Aphra Behn, slipping a powerful laxative into Davis's tea-time cakes before an evening...

Moon is a Restoration farce written by Aphra Behn in 1687, based on Italian commedia dell'arte. It was Behn's second most successful play (after The Rover)...

The Forc'd Marriage; or, The Jealous Bridegroom is a play by Aphra Behn, staged by the Duke's Company on 20 September 1670 in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London...

may refer to: The Rover (novel) by Joseph Conrad The Rover (play) by Aphra Behn The Rover (1967 film) by Terence Young The Rover (2014 film) by David...

The History of the Nun, or The Fair Vow Breaker, is a novella by Aphra Behn published in 1689. It is a piece of amatory fiction. Some of the story's main...

Nights Intrigue is a 1679 comedic stage play by the English author Aphra Behn. Behn dedicated the play, originally performed at the Duke's Company in London...

novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts, was often in...

Town-Fopp: or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey is a Restoration comedy written by Aphra Behn and first staged in 1676. It deals with an unhappy marriage and its dissolution...

writers by instituting educational institutions for women. Astell and Aphra Behn together laid the groundwork for feminist theory in the 17th century....

are the subjects of the novel Oroonoko: Or the Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, which is the tragic love story between Oroonoko and the beautiful Imoinda...

first woman of the Western tradition who made her living as playwright, Aphra Behn (The Rover). Sex comedy embraces a realm of drama in which women can be...

1647 to 1660. Thomaso is now best known as the foundation upon which Aphra Behn constructed her finest play, The Rover, or the Banished Cavaliers (1677)...

or, the History of Bacon in Virginia is a tragicomic play written by Aphra Behn and first performed posthumously in 1689. It is a highly fictionalized...

World (1700). This period saw the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn, author of many comedies including The Rover (1677). Restoration comedy...

of Lisieux entitled The Eagle and the Dove, a biography of the author Aphra Behn, and a biography of her maternal grandmother, the Spanish dancer known...