1. Comdey of the Restoration Period
... it is Angellica Bianca who lacks the agency to fulfil her desire and is left wanting and heartbroken. As Asha Kanwar and Anand Prakash puts it Aphra Behn was, then, avoice of social group in the seventeenth century England which stood to benefit from two things- a) defeat of the old forces representing tradition, hierarchy and aristocracy; b) emergence of an outlook that ... it is Angellica Bianca who lacks the agency to fulfil her desire and is left wanting and heartbroken. As Asha Kanwar and Anand Prakash puts it Aphra Behn was, then, avoice of social group in the seventeenth century ...
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