Eliza Haywood followed the footsteps of Aphra Behn when, in 1719, she used her name with unprecedented pride. |
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Of these, Behn, Dryden, Rochester, and Gould deserve some separate mention. |
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One of the most remarkable aspects of Behn's success in court poetry, however, is that Behn was herself a commoner. |
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If Behn is a curious exception to the rule of noble verse, Robert Gould breaks that rule altogether. |
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One of the most significant figures in the rise of the novel in the Restoration period is Aphra Behn. |
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Behn wrote the novel in two parts, with the second part showing a distinctly different style from the first. |
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Aphra Behn, Matthew Prior, and Robert Gould, by contrast, were outsiders who were profoundly royalist. |
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The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn. |
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