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Aphra Behn's 'Emperor of the Moon' and its French Source 'Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune'

Aphra Behn's 'Emperor of the Moon' and its French Source 'Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune'

Hayden, Judy A.
Worden, Daniel J.
Behn, Aphra

Paperback

Series: Mhra Critical Texts, Book 67

Literary CriticismPlays

ISBN10: 178188885X
ISBN13: 9781781888858
Publisher: Texts and Translations
Published: May 31 2019
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Aphra Behn's spectacular farce Emperor of the Moon (1687) so engaged audiences that it was restaged well into the eighteenth century. Her play was largely adapted from Anne Mauduit de Fatouville's Arlequin, Empereur dans la lune (1684), a commedia dell'arte production by the Comédie-Italienne troupe, a performance which also proved immensely popular with Parisian audiences. Within its witty and amusing three acts, Behn's play explores a number of contemporary concerns - from commedia dell'arte, to gender and politics, to science and astronomy, including a plurality of worlds, for example - all culminating in the third act's operatic spectacle.

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