Aphra Behn wrote Restoration drama, prose fiction and poetry about desire, power, gender and colonial encounter. The Rover follows a group of Englishmen and women in Naples during carnival, using disguise, courtship and sexual danger to test the limited choices available to women. Oroonoko tells the story of an African prince enslaved in Suriname and has become central to debates about early prose fiction, colonialism and the representation of slavery. Behn's poetry ranges from erotic verse to political and occasional writing, often treating female desire with unusual directness for the period. Her work is witty, theatrical and historically important without fitting neatly into modern moral categories. It suits readers of Restoration drama, early fiction, women's literary history and colonial studies. Read more Less
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