Though not the Earl of Rochester, this poet adapted a Jean Benech de Cantanac poem about premature ejaculation into the mock-epic "The Disappointment," and also addressed a possible hermaphrodite for whom the term "maid" was "Too weak, too feminine for nobler thee" in the poem "To the Fair Clarinda.
The affair of Francisco's wife with Cadiz governor Don Carlos is the subject of this writer's The False Count, which also produced a song about a woman's love for both Alexis and Damon, "On Her Loving Two Equally." Though not the Earl of Rochester, this poet adapted a Jean Benech de Cantanac poem about premature ejaculation into the mock-epic "The Disappointment," and also addressed a possible hermaphrodite for whom the term "maid" was "Too weak, too feminine for nobler thee" in the poem "To the Fair Clarinda." More famous are a verse play in which the courtesan (*) Angelica Bianca nearly kills the man who stole her picture and seduced her despite planning to marry Florinda's sister Hellena, and a novel in which Imoinda and her lover are captured, leading the latter to eventually stage a revolt against deputy-governor Byam in Surinam. For 10 points, name this woman who wrote about Captain Willmore, The Rover, as well as a royal slave, Oroonoko.
The affair of Francisco's wife with Cadiz governor Don Carlos is the subject of this writer's The False Count, which also produced a song about a woman's love for both Alexis and Damon, "On Her Loving Two Equally."
Aphra {Behn}