Word: aphra
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...grad students with an abiding interest the lesser-known works of George Eliot, I would think they were 70-year-old migrant workers in a particularly harrowing Steinbeck novel. But they aren’t. They are really doing their dissertation on interior space in the plays of Aphra Behn.Type 3: The “You went to the University of Wisconsin, so you clearly hate me” TF.These TFs are the most proudly stylish of the bunch. They are usually outfitted in “very unique” items from thrift stores or, more commonly, in Express...
...show, written by Aphra Behn and directed by Partick Demers, runs a somewhat lengthy three hours but keeps a brisk pace throughout. It chronicles the complex misadventures of a group of Englishmen as they experience a variety of romantic troubles. Though the play was first performed in 1677, the plot seems strikingly modern—relationship problems are always relevant...
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...much valued in our age," Cary Verney, a lady of the Restoration court, lamented. The playwright Aphra Behn concurred. The 17th century's female model, she said, was "that dull slave call'd a Wife." Among her fellow rebels, Fraser reports, were she-authors, she-preachers, even she-soldiers, as well as stubborn widows, unruly prostitutes and acid-tongued ladies of the court...
...movement's diversity is pointed up by the variety of new women's publications. Most are angry and barely afloat financially. A few, such as Aphra, a quarterly located in Springtown, Pa., and Women: A Journal of Liberation, of Baltimore, are of high literary quality. Some, like A Broom of One's Own, of Washington, are largely one-woman efforts. Two angry entries are Off Our Backs and Up from Under?a gymnastic juxtaposition...