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English playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689)
Aphra Behn (/ˈæfrə bɛn/; bapt. 14 December 1640 – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era
Aphra_Behn
"The Disappointment" is a poem written by Aphra Behn, adapting freely from part of the French poem "L'occasion perdue recouverte" by Jean Benech de Cantenac
The Disappointment (Aphra Behn)
The_Disappointment_(Aphra_Behn)
English bisexual lawyer (died 1692)
(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
John_Hoyle_(died_1692)
Work of fiction published in 1688
Aphra Behn (1640–1689), first published in 1688 by William Canning and reprinted later that year in the compilation Three Histories by Mrs. A. Behn.
Oroonoko
1676 play
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
Abdelazer
Person who rejects common moral or sexual restraints that are deemed undesirable
(2004-11-25). "Behn's dramatic response to Restoration politics". In Hughes, Derek; Todd, Janet (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn. Cambridge University
Libertine
Topics referred to by the same term
Aphra may refer to: Aphra Brandreth (born 1978), British politician Aphra Behn (1640–1689), English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator Aphra
Aphra
Theatrical genre rooted in late 17th-century England
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
Restoration_comedy
Book by Aphra Behn
short novella by Aphra Behn published by Will Canning in 1688, a year before Behn's death. The plot is loosely based around rumours Behn had heard regarding
The_Fair_Jilt
Ancient Greek goddess of justice
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
Astraea
1677 play by Aphra Behn
written in mixed prose, song lyric, and verse by the English author Aphra Behn. It is a revision of Thomas Killigrew's play Thomaso, or The Wanderer
The_Rover_(play)
English royal mistress and actress (1650–1687)
satires from the time relate a tale of Gwyn, with the help of her friend Aphra Behn, slipping a powerful laxative into Davis' tea-time cakes before an evening
Nell_Gwyn
1680s three-volume book
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister is a three-volume roman à clef by Aphra Behn playing with events of the Monmouth Rebellion and exploring the genre
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
Love-Letters_Between_a_Nobleman_and_His_Sister
1689 tragicomic play by Aphra Behn
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
The Widdow Ranter, or, the History of Bacon in Virginia
The_Widdow_Ranter,_or,_the_History_of_Bacon_in_Virginia
Novel written as a series of letters
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
Epistolary_novel
1679 play
The Mistake is a tragicomedy written by Aphra Behn. It was probably written during the 1660s (making it Behn's first play), but was not staged until 1679
The_Young_King_(play)
Play by Aphra Behn
Timothy Tawdrey is a Restoration comedy written in mixed prose and verse by Aphra Behn and first staged in 1676. It deals with an unhappy marriage and its dissolution
The Town-Fopp: or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey
The_Town-Fopp:_or,_Sir_Timothy_Tawdrey
The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause, is a comedic play written by Aphra Behn, first performed in 1681 and published in 1682. An adaptation of John Tatum's
The Roundheads or, The Good Old Cause
The_Roundheads_or,_The_Good_Old_Cause
Nights Intrigue is a 1679 comedic stage play by the English author Aphra Behn. Behn dedicated the play, originally performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre
The_Feign'd_Curtizans
Play written by Aphra Behn
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
The_Forc'd_Marriage
English writer, merchant and spy (1660–1731)
novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Before the end of 1719, Robinson Crusoe had already
Daniel_Defoe
Topics referred to by the same term
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
Behn
Long fictional narrative story
English Rogue (1665), that feature brothels, while women authors like Aphra Behn had offered their heroines alternative careers as precursors of the 19th-century
Novel
1686 play
The Luckey Chance, or an Alderman's Bargain by Aphra Behn is a 17th-century comedy in five acts. The play was first staged in the Spring of 1686. Its main
The_Luckey_Chance
1678 play
Patient Fancy: A Comedy, is a comedic play written by Aphra Behn, first performed in 1678. It is Behn's first overtly political play. It was staged by the
Sir_Patient_Fancy
Play written by Aphra Behn
Amorous Prince, or The Curious Husband is a Restoration comedy written by Aphra Behn and first performed in 1671. It was her second play and represents an
The Amorous Prince, or, The Curious Husband
The_Amorous_Prince,_or,_The_Curious_Husband
Literature written during the English restoration
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
Restoration_literature
Genre in comedy
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
Sex_comedy
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
The_History_of_the_Nun
Human nose with a prominent bridge
1865-1934". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 87 (3): 404–35. JSTOR 20700234. Behn, Aphra (1987). Adelaide P. Amore (ed.). Oroonoko, Or, The Royal Slave: A Critical
Aquiline_nose
English actor and writer (c. 1669 – 1723)
Lane, she became known as the second woman of the English stage, after Aphra Behn. The main source of information on Centlivre's early life is Giles Jacob
Susanna_Centlivre
Novel authored by Jean-Baptiste de Brilhac
novel written by Jean-Baptiste de Brilhac. An English translation by Aphra Behn was published in 1688. It dramatizes the life and murder of Inês de Castro
Agnes de Castro; or, The Force of Generous Love
Agnes_de_Castro;_or,_The_Force_of_Generous_Love
1687 play
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_Emperor_of_the_Moon
English writer
playwright, and political pamphleteer. Manley is sometimes referred to, with Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood, as one of "the fair triumvirate of wit", which is a
Delarivier_Manley
17th–18th century English women authors Eliza Haywood, Delarivier Manley and Aphra Behn. The term was coined by poet-critic Rev. James Sterling in a dedicatory
The_fair_triumvirate_of_wit
Anticipations of feminism
writers by instituting educational institutions for women. Astell and Aphra Behn together laid the groundwork for feminist theory in the 17th century.
Protofeminism
Mistaken Brothers is a lost play written by Aphra Behn, first performed by the Duke's Company in 1682. Behn based her play, a comedy, on Thomas Randolph's
Like_Father,_Like_Son_(play)
1686 book by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Sir William Donville or Domville in 1687. The second translation, by Aphra Behn, appeared in 1688 under the title A Discovery of New Worlds and the third
Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
Conversations_on_the_Plurality_of_Worlds
Comedic play
The Dutch Lover is a comedic play written by Aphra Behn, first performed and published in 1673. It came out during the Third Anglo-Dutch War and is an
The_Dutch_Lover
British academic (born 1942)
Women's Writing. Since retirement, she has revised her biography of Aphra Behn, Aphra Behn: A Secret Life, and published four novels: A Man of Genius, Don't
Janet_Todd
English writer (1880–1948)
edition of George Villiers's The Rehearsal. He then edited the plays of Aphra Behn, which appeared in 1915 in six volumes. That work was well received by
Montague_Summers
British writer (1666–1709)
17 May 1709) was an English novelist and playwright. As an admirer of Aphra Behn and colleague of Susanna Centlivre, Pix has been called "a link between
Mary_Pix
Academic journal
expression in response to a male dominated literary market. The title Aphra came from Aphra Behn (1640–1689), the first woman to make a living as a writer. The
Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine
Aphra:_The_Feminist_Literary_Magazine
by Geoffrey Chaucer Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn Loving/Living/Party Going by Henry Green The Luck of Roaring Camp and
List_of_Penguin_Classics
English actress
joined the merged United Company. She was a friend of the playwright Aphra Behn and appeared in several of her plays. She was billed as Mrs Price. Christina
Emily_Price
English actress (born 1969)
also worked with the RSC at the Swan Theatre on their production of Aphra Behn's The Rover. At the Bush Theatre in London, she premiered Oscar winner
Alexandra_Gilbreath
Cathedral city in Kent, England
Grade II listed building. Other people connected with Canterbury include: Aphra Behn, restoration playwright and novelist Orlando Bloom, actor Thomas Sidney
Canterbury
British countess and poet
sensibility". Her works also allude to other female authors of the time, such as Aphra Behn and Katherine Phillips. Through her commentary on the mental and spiritual
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Anne_Finch,_Countess_of_Winchilsea
English writer and gardener (1892–1962)
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
Vita_Sackville-West
1680 play by Aphra Behn
Newgate is a 1680 comedy play usually attributed to the English writer Aphra Behn. It was first performed by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre
The_Revenge_(Behn_play)
English poet and novelist (1933–2026)
needed] Duffy's BBC radio plays include The Passionate Shepherdess on Aphra Behn (1977) and Only Goodnight (1981) on Edith Somerville and Violet Martin
Maureen_Duffy
Prostitute with an upper-class clientele
Edward Mata Hari (1876–1917), courtesan and spy Angellica Bianca in Aphra Behn's 1677 play The Rover. Bianca in William Shakespeare's Othello is considered
Courtesan
Genre of comedy
Hoxton (c. 1604), Molière's Scapin the Schemer (1671), and the plays of Aphra Behn and Thomas D'Urfey. "Dictionary of the Theatre" – via Google Books. Merriam-Webster
Comedy_of_intrigue
1929 essay by Virginia Woolf
far. Woolf examines the careers of several female authors, including Aphra Behn, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea,
A_Room_of_One's_Own
Country in South America
Caribbean portal Geography portal Outline of Suriname Oroonoko a novel by Aphra Behn partly based on her 1663 visit to Suriname. /ˈsʊərɪnæm, -nɑːm/ SOOR-in-A(H)M;
Suriname
One of Aesop's fables
lines of the story and its lesson. The first of these is a quatrain by Aphra Behn appearing in Francis Barlow's illustrated edition of the fables (1687):
The_Fox_and_the_Grapes
Person who writes plays
Ben Jonson. This period saw the first professional woman playwright, Aphra Behn. As a reaction to the decadence of Charles II era productions, sentimental
Playwright
Erotic dance
striptease was incorporated into the Restoration comedy The Rover, written by Aphra Behn in 1677. The stripper is a man; an English country gentleman who sensually
Striptease
British author, artist and journalist
Press. Retrieved 1 September 2026. "Home". A is for Aphra. Retrieved 17 August 2021. "Aphra Behn fans campaign for statue of playwright in Canterbury
Triona_Holden
Opera by John Blow written c1682
known English opera. The author of the libretto was surmised to have been Aphra Behn due to the feminist nature of the text, and that she later worked with
Venus_and_Adonis_(opera)
17th-century play by Thomas Shadwell
playwrights, including Thomas d'Urfey, Lawrence Maidwell, Susanna Centlivre, Aphra Behn, and Peter Pindar. Bruce and Longvil, two young men-about-town, described
The_Virtuoso_(play)
Work by Henry Fielding
Fielding makes a vague allusion to a play, whose title he never gives, "by Aphra Behn or Susanna Centlivre", in which "this vice of travel journals is ridiculed
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
The_Journal_of_a_Voyage_to_Lisbon
Classical Literature short books
Rainer Maria Rilke 104. Seven Hanged - Leonid Andreyev 105. Oroonoko - Aphra Behn 106. O frabjous day! - Lewis Carroll 107. Trivia: or, the Art of Walking
Little_Black_Classics
poets of note emerged during the period of the Restoration, including Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish, Mary Chudleigh, Anne Finch, Anne Killigrew, and Katherine
English_poetry
Party: Heritage Floor. Brooklyn Museum. 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2014. Aphra Behn.Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art: The Dinner Party: Heritage
List of women in the Heritage Floor
List_of_women_in_the_Heritage_Floor
literature – Aphra Behn, Oroonoko. Death of John Bunyan 1689 in literature – John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Death of Aphra Behn 1690 in
List_of_years_in_literature
Comedic play
The Younger Brother, or, The Amorous Jilt is a comedy written by Aphra Behn. The play was first performed and published posthumously in 1696, but was probably
The Younger Brother, or, The Amorous Jilt
The_Younger_Brother,_or,_The_Amorous_Jilt
Medieval long gown or cloak with wide sleeves
gaberdine as "A rough Irish mantle or horseman's cloak, a long cassock". Aphra Behn uses the term for 'Holy Dress', or 'Friers Habits' in Abdelazer (1676)
Gaberdine
Individuals interred at Westminster Abbey, London
Aglionby Edmund Ayrton Thomas Baltzar Spranger Barry and Ann Street Barry Aphra Behn Thomas Betterton Thomas "Tom" Brown General John Burgoyne Muzio Clementi
Burials and memorials in Westminster Abbey
Burials_and_memorials_in_Westminster_Abbey
Cultural classics valued in the West
Riverhead Books. ISBN 9781573225144. Owens, W. R. (1996). Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and the Canon. New York: Routledge in association with the Open University
Western_canon
Playwright list
Beguelin (born 1969, United States) Brendan Behan (1923–1964, Ireland) Aphra Behn (1640–1689, England) S. N. Behrman (1893–1973, United States) David Belasco
List_of_playwrights
Australian writer and public intellectual (born 1939)
a chapter on the 17th-century poet Katherine Philips; two chapters on Aphra Behn and one on Anne Wharton; and material on Anne Finch, Letitia Landon and
Germaine_Greer
1632 – Baruch Spinoza 1633 – Samuel Pepys 1639 – Thomas Ellwood 1640 – Aphra Behn 1642 – Isaac Newton 1643 – Gilbert Burnet 1644 – Matsuo Bashō 1646 – Gottfried
17th_century_in_literature
Play by Aphra Behn
Sir Timothy Treat-all is a play by Aphra Behn first performed in 1682. The play, a Restoration comedy, reflects Behn's own highly Royalist political point
The_City-Heiress
Literary genre supporting feminist goals
literature have come to be known as key feminist texts. In the 17th century, Aphra Behn, the first woman in England to make her living as a writer, integrated
Feminist_literature
English playwright, poet, and actor (1572–1637)
learning worked, like Samson's strength, to his own detriment. Earlier, Aphra Behn, writing in defence of female playwrights, had pointed to Jonson as a
Ben_Jonson
American writer
articles for The New Yorker, as well as biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Aphra Behn, James Brooke, Fanny Burney, Chiang Kai-shek, D. H. Lawrence, and Mabel
Emily_Hahn
Theatre company
Thomas Otway, George Etheredge, Thomas Shadwell and others; it produced Aphra Behn's plays from 1670 to 1682. The company also acted many translations and
Duke's_Company
English dramatist and theatre manager (1612–1683)
to bribe his stars to keep working for him.) Killigrew staged plays by Aphra Behn, John Dryden, William Wycherley...and Thomas Killigrew, as well as revivals
Thomas_Killigrew
Novel by Eliza Haywood
century "cultural shift toward a companionate model of marriage." Like Aphra Behn and Delarivier Manley, Haywood uses love triangles to illustrate the different
Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry
Love_in_Excess;_or,_The_Fatal_Enquiry
Anglo-Welsh poet and translator (1631/32 – 1664)
proper, and chaste. She was frequently contrasted to the more daring Aphra Behn, to the latter's detriment. Her poems, frequently occasional, typically
Katherine_Philips
South Transept of Westminster Abbey
such as Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Other notable poets and writers, such as Aphra Behn, are buried elsewhere in the Abbey. At least two of the memorials (both
Poets'_Corner
1660 restoration of the monarchy in the British Isles
celebrity actors. This period saw the first professional female playwright, Aphra Behn. The Restoration spectacular, or elaborately staged machine play, hit
Stuart_Restoration
Novel as a concept in English-language literature
scholarship cites Aphra Behn's Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684) John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) and Behn's Oroonoko (1688)
English_novel
Church in London, England
Jonson is buried standing upright in the north aisle of the nave, and Aphra Behn in the cloisters. On the floor, just inside the Great West Door in the
Westminster_Abbey
Genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous
Brinsley Sheridan Restoration comedy, as practiced by George Etherege, Aphra Behn and John Vanbrugh Sentimental comedy, as practiced by Colley Cibber and
Comedy
1638 novel by Francis Godwin
the 17th century, and even inspired parodies by Cyrano de Bergerac and Aphra Behn, but has been neglected in critical history. Recent studies have focused
The_Man_in_the_Moone
Genji, history's first novel coincidentally written by a woman. 1640: Aphra Behn, the first English women to earn a living by writing. 1648: Sor Juana
List_of_women's_firsts
Early 18th century English literary style
of novel. Aphra Behn had written literary novels before the turn of the 18th century, but there were not many immediate successors. Behn's Love-Letters
Augustan_prose
Proposal, Part II, Mary Astell (1697) The Adventure of the Black Lady, Aphra Behn (1697) Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasioned by the Duke and Dutchess
List_of_feminist_literature
from the original on December 26, 2021. Retrieved February 26, 2021. "Aphra Behn on Glbtq.com". Archived from the original on 2014-03-08.. Retrieved 12
List_of_bisexual_people_(A–F)
Play by Thomas Killigrew
1647 to 1660. Thomaso is now best known as the foundation upon which Aphra Behn constructed her most popular and respected play, The Rover, or the Banished
Thomaso
Australian actor (born 1983)
Midsummer Night's Dream as well as playing Belvile in CBC's production of Aphra Behn's The Rover (The Banished Cavaliers). Samuel later attended Flinders University
Xavier_Samuel
1681 play
Count, Or, A New Way to play An Old Game is a comedic play written by Aphra Behn, first performed in 1681 and published in 1682. It was staged by the Duke's
The_False_Count
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come (1678) Aphra Behn, Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave (1688) Anonymous, Vertue Rewarded (1693)
List of claimed first novels in English
List_of_claimed_first_novels_in_English
1983 novel by Philip José Farmer
such diverse characters as Sir Richard Burton, Alice Pleasance Liddell, Aphra Behn and Tom Turpin through a bizarre afterlife in which every human ever to
Gods_of_Riverworld
Theatrical genre intended to make an audience laugh
Brinsley Sheridan Restoration comedy, as practiced by George Etherege, Aphra Behn and John Vanbrugh Sentimental comedy, as practiced by Colley Cibber and
Comedy_(drama)
Genre of British literature
(author of The Lost Lover and Almyna: or, The Arabian Vow. A Tragedy) and Aphra Behn (who wrote The History of the Nun and "To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made
Amatory_fiction
Lillian Beckwith (1916–2004) Max Beerbohm (1872–1956), Zuleika Dobson Aphra Behn (1640–1689) John Hay Beith (Ian Hay, 1876–1952) Rosalind Belben (born
List_of_English_novelists
Written work of art
Jane Austen (1775–1817) is the first major English woman novelist, while Aphra Behn is an early female dramatist. Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded
Literature
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Hebrew
(רפַעָ) Hebrew unisex name derived from the word aphra, APHRA means "ashes, dust" and "clay, loam." In the bible, this is part of the name of a Philistine city, Bethel-aphrah.
Girl/Female
Indian
Materialistic knowledge, Top level of intelligence
Girl/Female
Arabic, Hebrew
Colour of Earth; Young Deer; Dust
Girl/Female
Hebrew
Dust. The Old Testament house of Aphrah means 'house of dust'. Famous bearer: 17th century...
Girl/Female
African, Arabic, Swahili
Apology; Virgin
Male
Hebrew
(רפַעָ) Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Aphra, AFRA means "ashes, dust" and "clay, loam."Â
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian
Top Level of Intelligence
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Hebrew
Fawn.
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African
child that comes and goes'.
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Celtic
Agreeable.
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Telugu
Cloud
Female
Hebrew
(רפַעָ) Variant spelling of Hebrew unisex Aphra, AFRA means "ashes, dust" and "clay, loam." Compare with another form of Afra.
Girl/Female
Indian, Sanskrit
Bearing Water; Clouds; Sky
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Tamil
Materialistic knowledge, Top level of intelligence
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African, Indian, Sanskrit
Junior; Other
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Egyptian
, the queen of Amasis II.
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Hindu, Indian
Happiness
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Indian
Materialistic knowledge, Top level of intelligence
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Telugu
Knowledge; Materialistic
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