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Introduction Janet Todd; Part I. Plays: 1. Sexual politics and partypolitics in Behn's drama, 1678-83 Sue Owen; 2. Popish plots: The Feign'dCurtizans in context Alison Shell; 3. Fiction feigning feminity: false countsand pageant kings in Aphra Behn's Popish Plot writings Ros Ballaster; 4. Morefor seeing than hearing: Behn and the use of theatre Dawn Lewcock; 5. TheRover and the eighteenth century Jane Spencer; Part II. Poetry: 6. AphraBehn: poetry and masquerade Paul Salzman; 7. 'For when the act is done andfinish't cleane, what should the poet doe, but shift the scene?': propaganda,professionalism and Aphra Behn Virginia Crompton; 8. Aphra Behn: the politicsof translation Elizabeth Spearing; 9. 'But to the touch were soft': sex,property and the politics of the penis Jessica Munns; Part II. Fiction: 10.Who is Silvia: what is she?: feminine identity in Aphra Behn's Love-Lettersbetween a Nobleman and his Sister Janet Todd; 11. Slave princes and ladymonsters: gender and ethnic difference in the work of Aphra Behn JacquelinePearson; 12. Oroonoko's blackness Catherine Gallagher; 13. Confusing matters:searching the backgrounds of Oroonoko Joanna Lipking; Part IV. Biography: 14.Private jottings, public utterances: Aphra Behn's writings and herCommonplace Book Mary Ann O'Donnell; 15. New light on the background andearly life of Aphra Behn Jane Jones.