Sujet
OXFORD
Objet
Concise Oxford Lit. : "BEHN, Mrs Afra or Aphra (1640-89), was employed in 1666 by Charles II as a spy in Antwerp in the Dutch war. Her first play, The Forced Marriage (1670) was followed by some 14 others, including her most popular, The Rover (in two parts, (1677-81), dealing with the adventures in Naples and Madrid of a band of English cavaliers during the exile of Charles II; The City Heiress (1682), a characteristic satiric comedy of London life; and The Lucky Chance (1686), which explores one of her favourite themes, the ill consequences of arranges and ill-matched marriages. She also wrote pœms and novels. […]"
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