Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn
Ffugenw	Astrea
Ganwyd	Aphra Johnson  10 Gorffennaf 1640  Caergaint
Bedyddiwyd	14 Rhagfyr 1640 (yn y Calendr Iwliaidd)
Bu farw	16 Ebrill 1689  Llundain
Dinasyddiaeth	Teyrnas Lloegr
Galwedigaeth	dramodydd, cyfieithydd, bardd, llenor, nofelydd, ymgyrchydd dros hawliau merched
Adnabyddus am	Oroonoko, The Forc'd Marriage, The Dutch Lover, Abdelazer, The Town Fop or, Sir Timothy Tawdry, The Rover, The Feign'd Curtizans, The City Heiress, The Luckey Chance, The Emperor of the Moon, The Widow Ranter, or, the History of Bacon in Virginia, The Younger Brother, or, The Amorous Jilt, The Fair Jilt, Agnes de Castro, or, the Force of Generous Love, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, The History of the Nun
Arddull	nofel ramant
Partner	William Scott

Llên Lloegr yn yr 17eg ganrif
Y ddrama yn Oes Iago William Shakespeare Ben Jonson Thomas Middleton Francis Beaumont John Fletcher John Webster George Chapman
Beirdd Metaffisegol John Donne Andrew Marvell Richard Crashaw Thomas Traherne Abraham Cowley
Beirdd Cafaliraidd Richard Lovelace Thomas Carew Syr John Suckling Edmund Waller Robert Herrick
Piwritaniaid John Milton (Paradise Lost) John Bunyan (The Pilgrim's Progress)
Llên yr Adferiad William Davenant Thomas Killigrew John Dryden Samuel Butler Iarll Rochester William Wycherley Aphra Behn George Etherege John Vanbrugh John Aubrey Samuel Pepys
Athroniaeth a'r gwyddorau Francis Bacon Robert Fludd Thomas Hobbes Thomas Browne John Locke
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Merch a dramodydd o Saesnes oedd Aphra Behn (10 Gorffennaf 1640 – 16 Ebrill 1689); mae ei dramâu ar y llwyfan o hyd yn Llundain. Yn ystod cyfnod yr Adferiad Saesneg roedd hi'n un o brif awduron ei hoes.

Bywyd Cynnar

Roedd Aphra Behn, yn un o'r awduresau cyntaf i ennill ei bywoliaeth drwy ysgrifennu.^[1] Fe i ganwyd yn Wye, ger Caergaint, ar 10 Gorffennaf 1640 yn ferch i Bartholomew Johnson ac Elizabeth Denham. Bedyddwyd Aphra, neu Eaffry, ym mis 14 Rhagfyr 1640. Gweithiodd ei mam,Elizabeth Denham, fel nyrs i'r teulu cyfoethog Colepeper a ddaeth Aphra yn rhan o'u teulu estynnedig.

Ym 1663 aeth hi i Swrinam, ar daith i lawr yr afon o'r un enw. Seilir un o'i phrif straeon ar gaethweision y coloni, Oroonoko. Roedd lawer yn amau dilysrwydd y siwrne i ferch ond mae tystiolaeth bellach yn cadarnhau ei thaith.

Llyfryddiaeth

Dramâu

• The Forced Marriage (1670)
• The Amorous Prince (1671)
• The Dutch Lover (1673)
• Abdelazer (1676)
• The Town Fop (1676)
• The Rover, Part 1 (1677) and Part 2 (1681)
• Sir Patient Fancy (1678)
• The Feigned Courtesans (1679)
• The Young King (1679)
• The False Count (1681)
• The Roundheads (1681)
• The City Heiress (1682)
• Like Father, Like Son (1682)
• The Lucky Chance (1686) with composer John Blow
• The Emperor of the Moon (1687)

Posthumously performed

• The Widdow Ranter (1689)^[2]
• The Younger Brother (1696)

Nofelau

• The Fair Jilt
• Agnes de Castro
• Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684)
• Oroonoko (1688)

Straeon byrion

• The History of the Nun: or, the Fair Vow-Breaker (1688)
• The Dumb Virgin: Or, The Force of Imagination (1700)

Cerddi

• Love Armed (1677)
• The Disappointment (1680)
• On Her Loving Two Equally (1682)
• Poems upon Several Occasions (1684)
• On Desire (1688)
• To The Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, Imagined More Than Woman (1688)

Cyfeiriadau

1. Montague Summers, The Works of Aphra Behn (London: William Heineman, 1913)
2. Online etext

Bywgrafiadau

• "The Passionate Shepherdess" Maureen Duffy 1977
• Angeline Goreau, Reconstructing Aphra: a social biography of Aphra Behn (New York: Dial Press, 1980). ISBN 0-8037-7478-8
• Angeline Goreau. Aphra Behn: A scandal to modesty (c. 1640-1689) in Spender, Dale (ed.) Feminist theorists: Three centuries of key women thinkers, Pantheon 1983, pp. 8–27 ISBN 0-394-53438-7.
• What Is Triumph in Love? with a consideration of Aphra Behn, Nancy Huntting

Ffynonellau Eraill

• Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of necessity: English women's writing 1649-88. University of Michigan 1989
• Summers, Montague (ed.). Aphra Behn: Works. London 1913
• Lewcock, Dawn. Aphra Behn studies: More for seeing than hearing: Behn and the use of theatre. Ed. Todd, Janet. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
• Steen, Francis F. The Politics of Love: Propaganda and Structural Learning in Aphra Behn's Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister. Poetics Today 23.1 (2002) 91-122. Project Muse. 19 Nov. 2007.^[1]
• Todd, Janet. The Critical Fortunes of Aphra Behn. Columbia: Camden House, 1998. 69-72.

Nodiadau

1. Project MUSE

Dolenni allanol

• (Saesneg) Portread gan Brifysgol Aberdeen Archifwyd 2012-04-19 yn y Peiriant Wayback
• (Saesneg) Bedd Aphra Behn, Abaty Westminster
• (Saesneg) Prifysgol Adelaide - bywgraffiad ac e-destuna Archifwyd 2009-07-28 yn y Peiriant Wayback
• (Saesneg) Tudalen Aphra Behn ar list-arts.net
• (Saesneg) The Sign of Angellica: An Aphra Behn Site Archifwyd 2007-11-04 yn y Peiriant Wayback
• (Saesneg) The Complete Works of Aphra Behn ar e-book
• (Saesneg) Rhai o gerddi llai Behn^{[dolen farw]}