"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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