Primary Sources, Articles and Links
WITS, like Physicians, never can agree,
When of a different Society;
And Rabel's Drops were never more cry'd down
By all the Learned Doctors of the Town,
Than a new Play, whose author is unknown.Prologue to Aphra Behn's The Rover
Works by Aphra Behn available online:
Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave
http://www.en.utexas.edu/~benjamin/316kfall/316ktexts/oroonoko.html
Also available at the Reading Room.
The Rover (Reading Room)
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/ReadingRoom/Drama/Behn/
The Unfortunate Happy Lady: A True History
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/bhnufhpl.html
The City Heiress
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
The
Lady's Looking-Glass, to Dress Herself By
http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/unedit_web/behn3.html
Poetry:
Secondary Sources on Behn:
Shifting Power and the Evasion of Responsibility
in Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (Helen Ibbotson)
Images of Women in 18th
Century Plays (Megan Katovich)
A Review of The Works of Aphra Behn (Todd) (Catherine Decker)
Memoir of Mrs Behn by Montague Summers (1914)
Other related WWW pages of interest:
The
Incomparable Astrea (Susan Harwood Kaczmarczik)
Molly Brown's
site, based on the research for her novel Invitation to a Funeral,
and including a tour of Restoration London.
The
Aphra Behn Society Homepage
A Celebration of Women Writers
The
World of London Theatre, 1660-1800 (Patricia Craddock)
Voice of
the Shuttle: Restoration &
18th Century.
What's New in
18th Century Resources (J. Lynch). The page
also includes references to sites
dealing with the seventeenth century.
Tyburn Tree:
Public Execution in Early Modern England -- A fascinating page,
very well done, dealing with execution in
the 17th and 18th centuries.
Last updated: Nov. 21, 2000
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Ruth
Nestvold