Here each of the original pair decides to win the other one back, more as an exercise of power than love. The results are predictably painful. An episode fictionalizes the Duke of Monmouth
's beheading.
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ephelia
The broadside advises Monmouth
, the Protestant claimant to succeed to the throne, in no uncertain terms to remember his illegitimate birth, re-awaken his loyalty, to scorn the mob, and to realise that the only...