Aphra Behn

Portread Aphra Behn, tua 30 oed, gan Mary Beale.

Merch a dramodydd o bwys oedd Aphra Behn (10 Gorffennaf 1640 – 16 Ebrill 1689), mae ei dramâu ar lwyfanau o hyd yn Llundain. Yn ystod cyfnod yr Adferiad Saesneg roedd hi'n un o brif awduron ei hoes.

Bywyd Cynnar

Roedd Aphra Behn, yn un o'r awduresau cyntaf i ennill ei bywoliaeth drwy ysgrifennu. Fe i ganwyd yn Wye, ger Caergaint, ar 10 Gorffennaf 1640 yn ferch i Bartholomew Johnson ac Elizabeth Denham. Bedyddwyd Aphra, neu Eaffry, ym mis 14 Rhagfyr 1640. Gweithiodd ei mam,Elizabeth Denham, fel nyrs i'r teulu cyfoethog Colepeper a ddaeth Aphra yn rhan o'u teulu estynnedig. Ym 1663 aeth hi i Suriname, ar daith i lawr yr afon o'r un enw. Seilir un o'i phrif straeon ar gaethweision y coloni , Oroonoko. Roedd lawer yn amau dilysrwydd y siwrne i ferch ond mae tystiolaeth bellach yn cadarnhau ei thaith.

Llyfryddiaeth

Dramâu

• The Forced Marriage (1670)
• The Amorous Prince (1671)
• The Dutch Lover (1673)
• Abdelazer (1676)
• The Town Fop (1676)
• The Rover, Part 1 (1677) and Part 2 (1681)
• Sir Patient Fancy (1678)
• The Feigned Courtesans (1679)
• The Young King (1679)
• The False Count (1681)
• The Roundheads (1681)
• The City Heiress (1682)
• Like Father, Like Son (1682)
• The Lucky Chance (1686) with composer John Blow
• The Emperor of the Moon (1687)

Posthumously performed

• The Widdow Ranter (1689)
• The Younger Brother (1696)

Nofelau

• The Fair Jilt
• Agnes de Castro
• Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684)
• Oroonoko (1688)

Straeon Byrion

• The History of the Nun: or, the Fair Vow-Breaker (1688)

• The Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of Imagination (1700)

Cerddi

• Love Armed (1677)

• The Disappointment (1680)

• On Her Loving Two Equally (1682)

• Poems upon Several Occasions (1684)

• On Desire (1688)

• To The Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman (1688)

Cyfeiriadau

Bywgrafiadau

• "The Passionate Shepherdess" Maureen Duffy 1977
• Angeline Goreau, Reconstructing Aphra: a social biography of Aphra Behn (New York: Dial Press, 1980). ISBN 0-8037-7478-8
• Angeline Goreau. Aphra Behn: A scandal to modesty (c. 1640-1689) in Spender, Dale (ed.) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, pp. 8-27 ISBN 0-394-53438-7.
• What Is Triumph in Love? with a consideration of Aphra Behn, Nancy Huntting

Ffynhonellau Eraill

• Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of necessity: English women's writing 1649-88. University of Michigan 1989
• Summers, Montague (ed.). Aphra Behn: Works. London 1913
• Lewcock, Dawn. Aphra Behn studies: More for seeing than hearing: Behn and the use of theatre. Ed. Todd, Janet. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Steen, Francis F. The Politics of Love: Propaganda and Structural Learning in Aphra Behn's Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister. Poetics Today 23.1 (2002) 91-122. Project Muse. 19 Nov. 2007.
• Todd, Janet. The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn. Columbia: Camden House, 1998. 69-72.

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Aphra Behn

• (Saesneg) Portread gan Brifysgol Aberdeen
• (Saesneg) Aphra Behn's Grave, Westminster Abbey
• (Saesneg) Prifysgol Adelaide - bywgraffiad ac e-destuna
• (Saesneg) Tudalen Aphra Behn ar list-arts.net
• (Saesneg) The Sign of Angellica: An Aphra Behn Site
• (Saesneg) The Complete Works of Aphra Behn ar e-book
• (Saesneg) Rhai o gerddi llai Behn