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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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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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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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Less Sexually Liberating for Women

By Robin Bates | Published: September 24, 2009

Jean Honore Fragonard, The Bolt (1776)   Yesterday I wrote about Aphra Behn giving us images of women’s sexual liberation in her 1677 play The Rover.  But there is a dark undertone that differentiates the play from male-authored Restoration comedies.  Behn’s play may not be as polished as the plays of William Wycherley and George Etherege.  […]

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Aphra Behn, Sexual Revolutionary

By Robin Bates | Published: September 23, 2009

Aphra Behn, by Mary Beale I am having a great deal of fun teaching Aphra Behn’s play The Rover this week. Written in 1677 during the reign of Charles II, it is a rollicking sex comedy that proved to be very popular. A woman writing for the stage was in itself extraordinary. That the play […]

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