Lucky Chance

by Aphra Behn

Book Overview

The Lucky Chance An Alderman's Bargain by Aphra Behn This is above all, an indictment of arranged marriages. Young Leticia Bredwell has been purchased as a bride for the revoltingly foppish old Sir Feeble Fainwood. Feeble's friend, Sir Cautious Fulbank, also bought himself a bride, Julia, who-like Leticia, is in love with another younger, poorer man. The women and their lovers determine to end this tradition of marital servitude before Leticia must...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413571203
• ISBN13: 9780413571205
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Lucky Chance

The Lucky Chance is a Restoration comedy which has been underperformed for over 250 years. Its author, Aphra Behn (1640-1689), the first professional woman playwright, was a prolific writer who enjoyed great acclaim in her own lifetime, but whose work has been neglected since the eighteenth century. The Lucky Chance is a hugely comic play which deals in clandestine affairs, infidelities, love and marriage. --- from book's back cover