“Dwindling Down to Farce”?Aphra Behn’s Approach to Farce in the late 1670s and 80s

  1. Figueroa Dorrego, Jorge 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

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Revista:
Journal of English Studies

ISSN: 1576-6357

Ano de publicación: 2019

Número: 17

Páxinas: 127-147

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.18172/JES.3565 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumo

A pesar de sus críticas a la farsa en los paratextos de The Emperor of the Moon (1687), Aphra Behn utiliza frecuentemente elementos farsescos no solo en esa obra y en The False Count (1681), que se describen como tales en sus títulos, sino también en Sir Patient Fancy (1678), The Feign’d Curtizans (1679) y The Second Part of The Rover (1681). Este artículo sostiene que Behn adapta la farsa francesa y la commedia dell’arte italiana al teatro inglés de la Restauración principalmente recurriendo a la farsa de engaño para entrampar a viejos maridos o padres, o a personajes necios e hipócritas, exhibiendo una impresionante destreza en el uso de disfraces, y recurriendo a menudo a la comedia física, que aparece descrita detalladamente en acotaciones. Behn se apropia de la farsa para intentar agradar a la audiencia pero también para servir a sus propios intereses como escritora Tory.

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1 The author wishes to acknowledge funding for his research from the Spanish government (MINECO project ref. FFI2015-68376-P), the Junta de Andalucía (project ref. P11-HUM-7761) and the Xunta de Galicia (Rede de Lingua e Literatura Inglesa e Identidade III, ref. ED431D2017/17).

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