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Or, / by Liz Duffy Adams.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PS3601.D379 O7 2010
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Liz Duffy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689--Drama.
- Behn, Aphra.
- Gwyn, Nell, 1650-1687--Drama.
- Gwyn, Nell.
- Physical Description:
- 50 p. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dramatist's Play Service, c2010.
- Summary:
- "OR, takes place (mostly) during one night in the life of Aphra Behn, poet, spy, and soon to be the first professional female playwright. Sprung from debtors' prison after a disastrous overseas mission, Aphra is desperate to get out of the spy trade. She has a shot at a production at one of only two London companies, if she can only finish her play by morning despite interruptions from sudden new love, actress Nell Gwynne; complicated royal love, King Charles II; and very dodgy ex-love, double-agent William Scot -- who may be in on a plot to murder the king in the morning. Can Aphra resist Nell's charms, save Charles' life, win William a pardon, and launch her career, all in one night? Against a background of a long drawn-out war and a counter-culture of free love, cross-dressing, and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s look a lot like the 1960s in this neo-Restoration comedy"--P. [4] of cover.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780822224587
- 0822224585
- OCLC:
- 711052144
- Publisher Number:
- 99993237273
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