During her career, Aphra wrote and staged approximately nineteen plays [ CITATION Wil l 1033 ]. ... Aphra Behn's The Rover still stands today as one of her most renowned works and best-known plays. The play speaks out against the unequal treatment of women during the Restoration. ... The play opens with three female characters whose stories dominate the play throughout, each striving to break from their prescribed outcomes. ... While Behn was writing this play, actresses were beginning to appear on the stage in England ...

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The "Revolution" in Literature During the 19th/20th Centuries An influential English Modernist Virginia Woolf once said, "On or about December 1910, the world changed". This statement is regarding the drastic change in the culture of society with the beginning of exploration of the meaning of li...

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