In a comedy by this author, the daughter and niece of Dr. Balliardo employ a harlequin and a valet to convince him that their lovers are alien visitors.
In a comedy by this author, the daughter and niece of Dr. Balliardo employ a harlequin and a valet to convince him that their lovers are alien visitors. Cloris is distressed to find "beneath the verdant leaves a snake" which prompts her to flee "like lightning through the grove" in a poem by this author in which Lisander curses "his birth, his fate, his stars" after finding himself unable to achieve erection. This author of "The Emperor of the Moon" wrote a play in which the revenge-seeking courtesan Angellica Bianca disrupts the budding romance between Hellena and Captain Willmore. This author of "The Disappointment" also created a character from Coromantien who kills his lover Imoinda after being enslaved and taken to Suriname. Women are urged to drop flowers on this author's tomb because "it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds" in Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own." For 10 points, name this English spy who wrote The Rover and Oroonoko.
In a comedy by this author, the daughter and niece of Dr. Balliardo employ a harlequin and a valet to convince him that their lovers are alien visitors.
Aphra Behn