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The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers is a play in two parts that is written by the English author Aphra Behn. It is a revision of Thomas Killigrew's play Thomaso, or The Wanderer (1664), and features multiple plot lines, dealing with the amorous adventures of a group of Englishmen and women in Naples at Carnival time.
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- 1967
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The Rover, comedy by Aphra Behn, produced and published in two parts in 1677 and 1681. Set in Madrid and Naples during the exile of England’s King Charles II, the play depicts the adventures of a small group of English Cavaliers. The protagonist, the charming but irresponsible Willmore, may have.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Our 2016 carnival production of The Rover by England’s first female professional playwright, Aphra Behn.
The Rover, alternatively known as 'The Banish't Cavaliers', is the most frequently read and performed of Aphra Behn's plays (Burke, 118).
Aphra Behn’s play The Rover, or The Banished Cavaliers, debuted in London in 1677 with King Charles II in attendance; The Rover was reportedly one of his favorite plays. In Restoration England, theatre was a political act, particularly when a play was written by a woman and openly defied Puritan conservatism.
Sep 18, 2020 · An adaptation of Sir Thomas Killigrew’s 10-part closet drama, Thomasa, or the Wanderer, The Rover displays Behn’s considerable dexterity in stagecraft, condensing a sprawling story and joining a large cast to a swiftly paced intrigue plot.
