Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

A selective list of articles on the eighteenth-century woman playwright Aphra Behn, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages

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Literary Criticism

Donald, Jennifer. Introduction to Aphra Behn from the Literary Encyclopedia, 26 July 2004. On Oroonoko, or the History of the Royal Slave (1688)

Hayden, Judy. Of Privileges and Masculine Parts: The Learned Lady in Aphra Behn's Sir Patient Fancy. Papers on Language and Literature, Summer 2006

Macdonald, Joyce Green. "Race, Women, and the Sentimental in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko," [Thomas Southerne's 1696 dramatization of Behn's novella]. Criticism, Fall, 1998

Pigg, Daniel. "Trying to frame the unframable: Oroonoko as discourse in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." Studies in Short Fiction, Wntr, 1997

Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn, (Rutgers Univ. Press) "the poet, playwright and Royalist spy." At Google Books

Velissariou, Aspasia. "'Tis pity that when laws are faulty they should not be mended or abolisht': Authority, legitimations, and honor in Aphra Behn's The Widdow Ranter," Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 2002

Aphra Behn website by Dr. Ruth Nestvold. Contains a timeline and critical articles

The American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies web site

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