Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The Rover I

In Aphra Behn's play, the men, vested with a responsibility to their female relations, are seen to be callous, self-serving, and easily duped. If the play demonstrates the moral fragility of the patriarchy at work, how might we see the ending in terms of performance expectation (the play) as well as its larger implications (the society), and its Royalist author?

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