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Aphra Behn Bibliography


Biographies

  • Goreau, Angeline.
    Reconstructing Aphra: A Social Biography of Aphra Behn.
    New York: Doubleday, 1980.

  • Todd, Janet.
    The Secret Life of Aphra Behn.
    New Jersey: Rutgers University Press,1997.

Plays

  • Behn, Aphra.
    The Works of Aphra Behn.
    Janet Todd, ed. London: W. Pickering, 1992.

  • Behn, Aphra.
    Aphra Behn: The Rover and Other Plays.
    Janet Spencer, ed. New York: Oxford Univ Press, 1998.

General

  • Akalaitis, Jo Anne. "From the First Rehearsal [The Rover]." Guthrie Program Magazine, Summer 1994, 24.

  • Carlson, Susan. "Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon: Staging Seventeenth-Century Farce for Twentieth-Century Tastes." Essays in Theatre/Etudes Théâtrales 14.2 (1996): 117-130.

  • Carlson, Susan. "Cannibalizing and Carnivalizing: Reviving Aphra Behn’s The Rover." Theatre Journal 47.4 (December 1995): 517-539.

  • Feldwick, Arlen. "Wits, Whigs, and Women: Domestic Politics as Anti-Whig Rhetoric in Aphra Behn’s Town Comedies." Political Rhetoric, Power, and Renaissance Women. Carole Levin and Patricia A. Sullivan Eds. Albany: State University of New York Press,

  • Griffiths, Malcolm. "Past Polemics, Present Problematics: Complexities in Reclaiming Aphra Behn’s Plays for Contemporary Production." The European Legacy 2.1 (1997): 22-27.

  • Hughes, Derek. The Theatre of Aphra Behn. New York: St. Martin’s, 2001.

  • Hutner, Heidi. Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory & Criticism. Virginia: Univ Press of Virginia, 1993.

  • Kinney, Suz-Anne. "Confinement Sharpens the Invention: Aphra Behn’s The Rover and Susannah Centlivre’s The Busy Body," in Look Who’s Laughing: Gender and Comedy. Gail Finney, ed. Langhorne, PA: Gordon and Breach, 1994, pp. 81-98.

  • Kreis-Schink, Annette. Women, Writing, And The Theater In The Early Modern Period: The Plays of Aphra Behn And Susanna Centlivre. Madison: Farleigh Dicksinson Univ Press, 2001

  • O’Donnell, Mary Ann, Bernard Dhuicq, and Guyonne Leduc, Eds. Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2000. 183-189.

  • Rubenstein, John. "Reflections on The Rover." Drama and Performance. Ed. Gary Vena and Andrea Nouryeh. New York: HarperCollins, 1995. 395-399.

  • Thompson, Peggy. "Closure and Subversion in Behn’s Comedies." Broken Boundaries: Women & Feminism in Restoration Drama. Ed. Catherine Quinsey. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996. 71-88.

  • Todd, Janet, ed. Aphra Behn Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 66-83.