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Aphra Behn’s works on stage and page
24 February, 2021
In: Books, Conversations, Theatre
Tagged: books, dramaturgy, early modern, Gender, Performance, writing
Tom Harrison talks about the works of Aphra Behn with Elaine Hobby and Claire Bowditch, two of the general editors of the new Cambridge Edition of Aphra Behn (published 2021-5). Topics include The Rover, authorial personas, cheeky chimney sweeps, the excitement and problems of editorial work, and much more.
1:10 The Rover: why is it so interesting?
11:10 Behn’s plays onstage
16:33 ‘Other’ Behn texts: The Second Part of the Rover, The False Count, Oronooko
27:55 The Cambridge Behn: what’s in it?
29:38 Editing texts: editorial practices, collation, and press variants
37:17 The Widdow Ranter: prose or verse?
45:10 What does literature mean to you?
For more on these ideas, see:
- British Library Discovering Literature: The Rover
- BBC In Our TIme: Aphra Behn
- Aphra Behn The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn
- Royal Shakespeare Company The Rover