The Brave Ideas of the Woman playwright in the English Restoration Period Literature

Abstract

English women prose occupies significant role in the studying process of English Literature. Georgian Society is familiar with famous English writers’ works like Jane Austin, Virgiania Woolf, Charlotre Bronte and  othrs, But there are still many feminine writers who are shadowed in Georgian Literary scientific  studies and researches, who expressed their brave ideas in the masculine society and showed their interests and great desire  to occupy equal place and   rights in  their world. Aphra Behn, an English playwright, fiction writer, translator, who entered the history of the restoration literature as the first woman playwright who earned her living with a pen. Her life was not easy, it was not full of joy or happiness, but on the contrary it was a continual work and   struggles against overwhelming adversity. The work discusses the courage of the lonely, poor and friendless woman who was the first in England to turn to the pen for surviving, but she did not only win herself bread but also she won her position in the English and World literature. Aphra Behn is famous with her poetry, essays, novels but the most important about her is that she was the first playwright woman, whose tragi-comedies were staged in her life, which were very successful but often turned into  the subject of discussions and mostly arose  dissatisfaction among critics. Especially men writers were against admitting and acknowledging the woman writer’s talent and ability. Three plays we discuss in the work “The force marriage or the jealous Bridegroom”, “The Amorous Prince” and “The Dutch Lover”   were subjects of discussions, irritation and hatred as the most painful issues of real contemporary society of that period are shown in them. It is considerable to admit that these three plays brought the playwright woman writer money, friends and reputation.