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- Title
"As for mine": Aphra Behn and Adaptations of Jacobean City Comedies.
- Authors
Aughterson, Kate
- Abstract
This article argues that Behn's dramaturgical style and experimentation can be illuminated by discussing her adaptations of earlier Jacobean city comedies: her adaptation of Middleton's A Mad World My Masters and A Trick to Catch the Old One in The City Heiress (1682) allow us to identify and hypothesize signature adapting strategies, which help locate a discussion of the anonymous adaptation of Marstons The Dutch Courtesan, The Revenge (1680). In particular, the article shows how her interest in performance spaces (illustrated by changing stage shutters and scenic spaces) is exemplified in the decisions the adaptor makes in altering the "original" Jacobean texts for a Restoration stage. Behn's archetypal interest in issues of gender and sexuality are explicitly staged using not only adaptations of texts but adaptations of stage spaces.
- Subjects
BEHN, Aphra, 1640-1689; DRAMATURGICAL approach; STAGE adaptations; EARLY modern English drama; ENGLISH drama (Comedy); MAD World My Masters, A (Theatrical production); TRICK to Catch the Old One, A (Theatrical production); REVENGE, The (Theatrical production)
- Publication
Restoration & 18th Century Theatre Research, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 2, p37
- ISSN
0034-5822
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5325/rectr.31.2.0037