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Aphra Behn's adaptations: Paper and stage sources for The Rover (1677) and Sir Patient Fancy (1678)
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posted on 2024-04-10, 12:58 authored by Claire Bowditch, Elaine HobbyElaine HobbyAs early as 1687, Gerard Langbaine noted the tendency of the most prolific Restoration playwrights to borrow from a plurality of sources for a single play. While Langbaine's identifications of playwrights' source materials, or "thefts," have been widely expanded upon in recent decades, the precise nature (and implications) of such borrowings have been underexplored. This essay will demonstrate how close comparison between a Restoration play and its paper stage sources contributes to an understanding of what might be at issue in such "thefts." This essay's focus is on two plays by Aphra Behn: The Rover (1677) and Sir Patient Fancy (1678).
Funding
History
School
- Social Sciences and Humanities
Department
- English
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Huntington Library QuarterlyVolume
85Issue
1Pages
131 - 150Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2022ISSN
0018-7895eISSN
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Language
- en