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Tag Archives: Aphra Behn
Literature Fills Your Life with Color
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged books on disk, Country Wife, Cyrano de Bergerac. William Wycherley, Edmond Rostand, Gravedigger's Daughter, Joyce Carol Oates, Rover, theater Comments closed
Behn’s Comedy Masks Feminist Protest
Aphra Behn’s 1677 play “The Rover” hides its feminist protest within a comic form.
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Sexual Misconduct in the Classics
A sexual misconduct course required of all employees got me thinking of problematic situations in the books that I teach.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "The Lover: A Ballad", "Written in a Lady's Prayer Book", Bacchae, Charlotte Bronte, Euripides, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, John Wilmot, Lucille Clifton, Rape, Rover, Sense and Sensibility, sexual assault, sexual harassment, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tom Jones Comments closed
Can Raillery Defuse NFL Anger?
Aphra Behn wrestles with novel ways to deal with potential abuse in her play “The Rover.”
The Minefield of Talking about Race
More thoughts on how to address difficult questions of race, again with the help of Aphra Behn.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Jonathan Chait, Oroonoko, Race, race conversations, Ta-Nehisi Coates Comments closed
Race Disagreements amongst Friends
The intricacies of the debate between Chait and Coates on the culture of poverty can be sorted out by applying Aphra Behn’s “Oroonoko.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged culture of poverty, Jonathan Chait, Oroonoko, politics, racism, Ta-Nehisi Coates Comments closed
A 17th Century Comedy Addressing Rape
The Right Wing’s “war on women” is affecting the way my students read Aphra Behn.
Behn & Friendships across Race Lines
Recalling an interracial friendship from my days in my newly integrated high school, I turn to Aprha Behn’s “Oroonoko” to understand why such friendships are so difficult, even for the best intentioned people.
Aphra Behn, Relationship Counselor
I’ve been reading essays for my Restoration and 18th Century Couples Comedy class and, as always, am finding new dimensions in the works as I look at them through the students’ eyes. Aprha Behn’s comedy The Rover has proved particularly illuminating. Three essays written on the play focused on its romantic relationships. Florinda and Belvile […]
