Women taking centre stage: A portrait of Aphra Behn and a few female playwrights in her footsteps
Often considered the first professional playwright in Britain, Aphra Behn is a trailblazer in more ways than one. With only a few weeks to go before the Dulwich Players’ production of The Rover, Behn’s most famous play, it is only right to honour her contribution both to the stage and to female empowerment, and present some of the women she inspired as playwrights during the Restoration. For, in Virginia Woolf’s words, “It was she who earned them the right to speak their mind