by Aphra Behn · Cossetània Edicions · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497914727
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L'errant (The Rover) is a play by Aphra Behn, set in the Spanish viceroyalty of Naples. The play explores themes such as sexual entanglements, power, the struggle for freedom in human relationships, and seduction. Two sisters, Florinda and Hellena, take advantage of the Carnival days to escape their brother's control and seek love and adventure. Florinda wants to meet her lover, Belvile, an English gentleman, while Willmore, the rover, seeks to seduce all the women of Naples. The play of masks, humor, and psychological depth make this 17th-century play still relevant in the 21st century.
Aphra Behn was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. Rising from obscurity, she came to the notice of Charles II, who employed her as a spy in Antwerp. Upon her return to London and a probable brief stay in debtors' prison, she began writing for the stage. She belonged to a coterie of poets and famous libertines such as John Wilmot, Lord Rochester. Behn wrote under the pastoral pseudonym Astrea. During the turbulent political times of the Exclusion Crisis, she wrote an epilogue and prologue that brought her legal trouble; she thereafter devoted most of her writing to prose genres and translations. A staunch supporter of the Stuart line, Behn declined an invitation from Bishop Burnet to write a welcoming poem to the new king William III. She died shortly after.
