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Quick ReadAs Aphra says in "Or": "Power needs poets, and poets need money." And these are voices we need to hear.
Photo credit: Carol Rosegg/Carol Rosegg | Kelly Hutchinson, Maggie Siff and Andy Paris in Liz Duffy Adams' "Or," opening at the Women's Project on Nov. 3. ( Photo by Carol Rosegg ) ltc
When we first meet Aphra Behn, she is writing to Charles II from debtors' prison.
It seems she hasn't paid her bills because the king, for whom she has been working as a spy, reneged on her salary. Now that England is getting its high spirits back after plague, fire and the Puritans, Aphra is eager to get out and start her new career - as a playwright.
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