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| | The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn - Cambridge University Press |
 | | & 1682 to early 1684, Behn disappeared from the scene, emerging to publish a prologue to the late Earl of Rochester’s Valentinian in February 1685 and shortly thereafter her first published foray into fiction, the first part of the Love-Letters between a Noble-Man and his Sister. |
| | In this same piece, Behn gives some insight into her literary theory, preferring Shakespeare to Jonson, and noting that plays are meant to entertain rather than educate. |
| | In the last four years of her life, Behn occupied herself predominantly with fiction, translation, and poetry, writing only four more plays, two of which were staged posthumously. |
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