Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works PDF Aphra Behn

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These assumed that women preferred sentimentalized pictures of their sex and objected to anything that seemed to degrade the female character. Prologues and epilogues often spoke of women’s liking for romantic love-scenes and associated a female presence in the audience with the move from masculine heroics and bawdry to feminine pathos and sentiment. This view may, however, be playwrights’ convention, and the increase in scenes of pathos and romance in the late Restoration may have had more to do with the skills of particular actresses in this star-dominated theatre than with the demands of a female audience. None the less, in her address to the reader before Sir Patient Fancy (1678) Behn noted the shifting taste and grumbled at the hypocritical complaints of women that her plays were bawdy; she insisted that she wrote conventionally as men did because she wrote ‘for bread’. In her prologue and epilogue she also railed against men who abused her for being a woma

• Book Name: Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works pdf
• Author Name Aphra Behn
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2003

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