APHRA BEHN: THE ROVER

Hailed as the first feminist writer in English literature, Aphra Behn (1640-89) lived and worked through turbulent times in English history Financial constraints brought her to play writing and she succeeded against all odds in her chosen vocation as the only woman playwright during the Restoration period. The present critical study explores the background, setting and characterization of The Rover as typical Restoration comedy designed to entertain the audience as well as bring Aphra Behn’s feminist concerns to the fore. Shakti Batra, formerly Vice-Principal of Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi). He has taught at The Kabul University and the International University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. Now associated with Surjeet Publications, Batra has to his credit critical studies of Amitav Ghosh : The Shadow Lines, Anita Desai : Voices In the City, Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman, Bernard Shaw : Candida, Bertolt Brecht : The Good Woman of Szechuan, D.H. Lawrence : The Rainbow, Dario Fo : Accidental Death of An Anarchist, Eugen Ionesco :Rhinoceros, F. Scott Fitzgerald : The Great Gatsby, Feodor, Dostoevsky : Crime And Punishment, Gabriel Garcia Marquez : The Chronicle of a Death Foretold, J.D. Salinger : The Catcher in the Rye, Jean Genet : The Balcony, Joseph Conrad : Heart of Darkness, John August Strindberg : Miss Julie, John Ibsen : Ghosts, Leo Tolstoy : Anna Karenina, Margaret Atwood : Surfacing, Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Scarlet Letter, Neruda, Walcott and Atwood : Poets of the Americas, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Micere Githae Mugo : The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, Oscar Wilde : The Importance of Being Ernest, Tagore : The Home & the World, Salman Rushdie : The Midnight’s Children, Tennessee Williams : The Glass Managerie, Tennessee Williams : A Street Car Named Desire, W. Goldings : Lord of the Flies, William Faulkner : The Sound and the Fury, William Shakespeare : Tempest, Wole Soyinka : Kongi’s Harvest, Wole Soyinka : The Lion and the Jewel

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