Love's Martyr deals with the supposed unhappy love-affair between the Roman poet Ovid
and Julia
, the daughter of Augustus Caesar
, who of course plans to marry her to someone more patrician and military...
Textual Production
Aphra Behn
AB
wrote a verse epistle, Ovid
to Julia, designed to defend or excuse the Earl of Mulgrave
(later Duke of Buckingham) for aspiring to the hand of the young Princess Anne
.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.