Tag Archives: Aphra Behn

Literature Fills Your Life with Color

By Robin Bates | Published: March 9, 2015

Having literature always playing in the back of your mind causes the world to pulsate with meaning.

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Behn’s Comedy Masks Feminist Protest

By Robin Bates | Published: November 20, 2014

Aphra Behn’s 1677 play “The Rover” hides its feminist protest within a comic form.

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Sexual Misconduct in the Classics

By Robin Bates | Published: November 3, 2014

A sexual misconduct course required of all employees got me thinking of problematic situations in the books that I teach.

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Can Raillery Defuse NFL Anger?

By Robin Bates | Published: September 13, 2014

Aphra Behn wrestles with novel ways to deal with potential abuse in her play “The Rover.”

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The Minefield of Talking about Race

By Robin Bates | Published: April 10, 2014

More thoughts on how to address difficult questions of race, again with the help of Aphra Behn.

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Race Disagreements amongst Friends

By Robin Bates | Published: April 9, 2014

The intricacies of the debate between Chait and Coates on the culture of poverty can be sorted out by applying Aphra Behn’s “Oroonoko.”

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A 17th Century Comedy Addressing Rape

By Robin Bates | Published: March 15, 2013

The Right Wing’s “war on women” is affecting the way my students read Aphra Behn.

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Behn & Friendships across Race Lines

By Robin Bates | Published: January 17, 2011

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.

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Aphra Behn, Relationship Counselor

By Robin Bates | Published: November 13, 2009

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 […]

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