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"I’m no tame sigher, but a rampant lion of the forest," says Willmore, the Rover, on shore after a long voyage. "I have a world of love in store," he claims, searching through the streets for a woman to prove it. When he meets two young Spanish woman—"I love mischief," says one—all the chemistry of comic satire lets loose.
The Rover roamed the English stage for a century and has been rediscovered in our own time as a theatrical masterpiece of wit and daring. Aphra Behn (1640–1689) combined dramatic genius and training with personal experience that gave her rare insight into manners and roles. She spied on the Dutch for the English king and was once imprisoned for debt. Behn is one of the very few great English playwrights to be honored in life by popular scandal and in death by burial at Westminster Abbey. She was the first English woman to earn her living by writing.
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The Rover is the most popular play by the first female professional writer in England, Aphra Behn. Set in Italy during the chaotic misrule of carnival time, the play explores issues of love, deception and the excesses of sexual passion.
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The editor, Robyn Bolam, is Professor of literature at St Mary's University College, London.
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- PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
- Publication date1967
- ISBN 10 0803253508
- ISBN 13 9780803253506
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages144
- EditorLink Frederick M.
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