Honour, desire, discourse: The notion of authority in Aphra Behn's comic drama.

Honour, desire, discourse: The notion of authority in Aphra Behn's comic drama.

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dc.contributor.advisor Makaryk, I. R., en
dc.contributor.author Ross, Shannon M. en
dc.date.accessioned 2009-03-19T14:15:03Z
dc.date.available 2009-03-19T14:15:03Z
dc.date.created 1998 en
dc.date.issued 2009-03-19T14:15:03Z
dc.identifier.citation Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 37-06, page: 1630. en
dc.identifier.isbn 9780612387638 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10393/4535
dc.description 590 $a School code: 0918. --690 $a 0465 --035 $a (UMI)AAIMQ38763 en
dc.description.abstract Honour, Desire, Discourse: The Notion of Authority in Aphra Behn's Comic Drama examines Aphra Behn's negotiation, within her comic drama in particular, with the notion of authority in one of England's most culturally and politically tumultuous eras. Contextualized within the sociohistory of the latter half of the seventeenth century, the paper looks in detail at three of Behn's comic plays: The Rover, or, the Banish't Cavaliers, Part I (1677), The Lucky Chance, or, The Alderman's Bargain (1686), and The Widow Ranter, or, The History of Bacon in Virginia (1689). Each study revolves around Behn's treatment of the notion of authority within the play, the particular social and political moods or events that inform this treatment, and Behn's use of the comic genre as a medium for discourse with dominant cultural paradigms. en
dc.format.extent 109 p. en
dc.publisher University of Ottawa (Canada). en
dc.subject.classification Theater. en
dc.title Honour, desire, discourse: The notion of authority in Aphra Behn's comic drama. en
dc.type M.A.Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa (Canada), 1998. en

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