ENGL 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hermaphrodite, Foreplay, Scrotum

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 205
• Professor: Nicole Didicher

Document Summary

We don"t know much about aphra behn. Signed up to be an espionage agent for the king and duke of york. Must have had great personality because she knew the king and the duke of york. She was to contact william scott and she didn"t get much information (and william scott lied to her anyway) so her spy career was short lived. She then decided to become a professional writer. A woman who publishes was considered a prostitute because she was considered to be selling herself. Was sexually active but not really happy. Ended up in her 40s single, abandoned (too old to be beautiful even though she was still witty and charming) Plays were a chance thing because if your play didn"t do well enough for a third showing, you didn"t make money. Authors only got the net box office of the third play, and then every other third play after that.