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Item Details
| Title:
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APHRA BEHN
THE COMEDIES |
| By: |
Kate Aughterson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£72.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333963199 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333963197 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
16 May, 2003 |
| Series: |
Analysing Texts |
| Pages: |
259 |
| Description: |
Provides students with an approachable analysis of Behn's dramaturgical abilities, showing how she uses comic and dramatic conventions to radical ends. Aughterson shows how Behn forces her audience to engage with issues of gender and sexuality, whilst continuing to write witty and accessible plays. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
biography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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