1. Comdey of the Restoration Period
(Barton,3) Given a period with such socio-historical background and male dominated constraint, an era where women publishing their writings tantamount prostitution, Aphra Behn remains the first professional woman who boldly and openly entered the masculine area of play writing. Even Virgina Wolf praises her by saying All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their mind. ... Her disguise as a boy allows the male voyeurs in the audience to see her legs: a risqu proposition in the 1600s and one that sold a lot o...
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