Aphra Behn's The Luckey Chance : Headnote (Introduction)
- Submitting institution
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University of Brighton
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 21884404
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108887564.003
- Title of edition
- Aphra Behn's The Luckey Chance
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108840743
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2021
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- The publication of this work was originally planned for September 2020. The schedule was severely impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting lockdowns. In March and October operations were disrupted as offices closed and all colleagues transitioned to working from home. Furthermore, Press colleagues overseeing the production of this volume were impacted by self-isolation requirements and relatives requiring care. We have a statement from the Commissioning Editor to this effect should it be required as evidence for audit.
- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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C - Cultural and Literary Histories
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This new scholarly edition of The Luckey Chance, co-edited by Aughterson, is part of a longer-term project undertaken under the General Editorship of Professor Elaine Hobby for Cambridge University Press to research, edit and publish a definitive contemporary and scholarly edition of all the works of the Restoration playwright, poet and novelist, Aphra Behn. The work’s originality lies in the fact that the project as a whole is the first comprehensive set of volumes of Behn’s work, comprising original textual and contextual research of her publications, aided by digital authorship identification – this volume (IV) is the first volume of 7. Aughterson has co-edited one of the plays in this volume - The Luckey Chance (an edition that is also available as a stand-alone printing apart from the longer volume in which the play appears). Aughterson’s contribution to the edition comprises original research into Behn’s sources, references and engagement with her seventeenth-century milieu and its impact on the text and meanings of the play. This material is present both in the scholarly apparatus of the notes to the text and the Introduction (‘Headnote’) itself. The research generates new insights into Behn’s practices as a skilled dramaturge in which she uses all the technology of the Restoration stage, her engagement with musical performance and performers, her positioning of debates about libertinism and gender and her immersion in the politics of writing about city and court in the 1680s.The significance of this contextual and editorial research will enable future scholars and future producers of the play to engage with fresh understandings of how Behn and her writing actively engages with Restoration stage practices, how she interacted and worked with fellow playwrights and actors through the production and the significance of her immersion in the business of London in the 1680s.
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- Non-English
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