"Jack Presbyter in his Proper Habit": Subverting Whig Rhetoric in Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (1682)

• Published in: Women's writing : the Elizabethan to Victorian period Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 34 - 55
• Main Author: Adcock, Rachel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 02.01.2015; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Behn, Aphra (1640-1689); Propaganda; Rhetoric; Theater; Traditions

Aphra Behn's The Roundheads (first performed in 1681 and published in 1682) was produced during a propaganda battle between the Whigs and Tories, and set during the Interregnum in order to draw parallels between parliamentary usurpation and the Whig plea for "liberty and property". Th...