Бен Афра(BEHN,APHRA(otherwise AFRA, APHARA or AYFARA).
Поэма Афры Бен «Love Armed» (на английском языке)
Love in fantastic triumph sat, Whilst bleeding hearts around him flowed, For whom fresh pains he did create, And strange tyrannic power he showed, From thy bright eyes he took his fire, Which round about, in sport he hurled; But…
Поэма Афры Бен “To The Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love To Me, Imagined More Than Woman” (на английском языке)
Fair lovely maid, or if that title be Too weak, too feminine for nobler thee, Permit a name that more approaches truth, And let me call thee, lovely charming youth. This last will justify my soft complaint, While that may…
Поэма Афры Бен “On Her Loving Two Equally” (на английском языке) To The Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love To Me, Imagined More Than Woman”.
I. OW strongly does my passion flow, Divided equally ‘twixt two? Damon had ne’er subdued my heart, Had not Alexis took his part; Nor could Alexis powerful prove, Without my Damon’s aid, to gain my love. II. When my Alexis…
Описание лондонских памятных мест, связанных с жизнью и творчеством Афры Бен (на английском языке)
Aphra Behn’s London 1. Birdcage Walk: a favorite Restoration walk, lined with aviaries built by Charles II. 2. Westminster Abbey: Behn is buried in the Cloisters. 3. Pall Mall: Nell Gywnn, one of the leading actresses of the period, a…
Афоризмы и эпиграммы Афры Бен
* * * Брак подобен долгому морскому путешествию, где очень скоро штили надоедают, а бури опасны; где редко увидишь что-нибудь новое – все море да море; все муж да муж, еже­дневно, ежечасно, до пресыщения. * * * Людям свойственно превращать…
Монологи Афры Бен: “The Forc’d Marriage”, “The Lucky Chance”, “The Town-Fop” (на английском языке)
THE FORC’D MARRIAGE NOTE: This monologue is reprinted from The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. 3. Ed. Montague Summers. London: Heinemann, 1915. PISARO: Sir, you are of so strange a jealous Humour, And I so strangely jealous of your Honour,…