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    <title>The Rover Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Rover Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Attitude Towards Women In Seventeenth Century In Contex With The Rover....]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/attitude-towards-women-seventeenth-century-contex-64405</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Attitude Towards Women In Seventeenth Century In Contex With The Rover. Explain.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:34:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Yes, Behn celebrates Wilmore. The primary way is that he isn't really...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/does-behn-celebrate-willmore-23871</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Yes, Behn celebrates Wilmore. The primary way is that he isn't really punished. He's got all kinds of qualities that should qualify him as a villain, someone who the plot should work out badly for. However, he repeatedly succeeds in seducing women, including women who should know better. It is Belville who the soldiers seize, not Wilmore. An arrangement is made for him to marry the wealthy Hellena, a fate that essentially rewards him for his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:42:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does Behn celebrate Willmore in &quot;The Rover&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/does-behn-celebrate-willmore-23871</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Does Behn celebrate Willmore in &quot;The Rover&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:03:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, there are two reasons why critics might think that...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/why-do-many-critics-believe-that-hellena-rover-23009</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, there are two reasons why critics might think that Hellena is the rover who gives the play its title. The first is internal to the play: Hellena roves more widely from her assigned course than anyone else. Wilmore takes few social risks with his actions and attitudes; Hellena risks much. The second is historical/biographical; Hellena makes independent choices somewhat similar to Behn's own, and so one might think that Behn...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 May 2008 18:16:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would say that yes, there are heroes and heroines in The Rover, but...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/there-any-heroes-heroines-within-play-23465</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I would say that yes, there are heroes and heroines in The Rover, but that the play is complex, and all heroism must be understood within its political context. I find Hellena heroic. The limits this culture placed on women were so severe that to be a woman who pursues her own desires, who tastes freedom, if only for a brief time, and who allows her wit to shine, to be a fine heroine. I suspect Behn feels the same way, since she had Don Pedro...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 May 2008 16:30:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Are there any heroes or heroines within the play, &quot;The Rover&quot;?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/there-any-heroes-heroines-within-play-23465</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Are there any heroes or heroines within the play, &quot;The Rover&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 May 2008 13:23:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why do many critics believe that Hellena is the Rover rather than Wilmore?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/why-do-many-critics-believe-that-hellena-rover-23009</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why do many critics believe that Hellena is the Rover rather than Wilmore?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 1 May 2008 06:37:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Certainly a good argument can and has been made that the play is...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/rover-feminist-play-16159</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Certainly a good argument can and has been made that the play is feminist in nature. The female characters are intelligent and bawdy, feeling there is nothing wrong with their sexual behavior. They aren't the property of the male characters in the play, and Behn, the playwright, uses her women to make fun of society during the Restoration period. During this time, women were either pure and chaste, or they were loose and lewd. Behn's females...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:26:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is &quot;The Rover&quot; a feminist play?  If so, how is it portrayed?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/rover-feminist-play-16159</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Is &quot;The Rover&quot; a feminist play?  If so, how is it portrayed?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:28:32 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'm not sure what you mean by &quot;unity of time,&quot; but The Rover...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/does-rover-follow-unity-time-and-take-place-only-946</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I'm not sure what you mean by &quot;unity of time,&quot; but The Rover does take place over the course of one day. The play is set in Spain on the eve of Carnival, or the feast before Easter (which we know better as Mardi Gras).]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:29:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This may surprise you, but my favorite character is Angellica Bianca....]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/your-opinion-which-character-was-your-favorite-10207</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This may surprise you, but my favorite character is Angellica Bianca. Her situation is so heartbreaking. She has made the best deal she can with her society; she has traded her beauty and her virtue (as her period sees it) for money and a partial position. Aside from marriage, what else could a woman do at that time? But then her structure falls apart, betrayed from within, because she falls in love. Sadness!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:15:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In your opinion which character was your favorite and why?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/your-opinion-which-character-was-your-favorite-10207</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In your opinion which character was your favorite and why?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:28:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Behn was vehement in his concern that Renaissance women, as a result of...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/discuss-signifance-opening-scene-rover-9607</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Behn was vehement in his concern that Renaissance women, as a result of social and legal limitations, were vunerable to both abuse and moral corruption.  The play challenges the patterns of marriage and courtship that put women on an auction block to the highest bidder, as well as challenging the limitations of a women's opportunities for employment.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:06:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The opening scenes were a shocking departure from the usual women's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The opening scenes were a shocking departure from the usual women's roles. The play was modeled after Killigrew's Thomaso. However, in the opening scenes, two women are openly discussing love and sex. This was a shocking gender crossing. It would not have been unusual for men to be discussing such a subject, but the freedom and liberty of women  discussing such lusty subjects made it unique. The king of the time, CharlesII, even requested his...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:44:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the signifance of the opening scene of The Rover?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/discuss-signifance-opening-scene-rover-9607</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the signifance of the opening scene of The Rover?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:22:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does The Rover follow the unity of time and take place in only one day?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/rover/q-and-a/does-rover-follow-unity-time-and-take-place-only-946</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Does The Rover follow the unity of time and take place in only one day?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:40:36 PST</pubDate>
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