Introduction

“Its Only Test is in Performance”: Aphra Behn and the Modern London Stage

“…40 Margarete Rubik declared in 2012 that "[Behn's] plays were [ … ] reperformed in various theatres in the last decades of the twentieth century, though nowadays interest seems to have fallen off again". 41 As Griffiths had in 1997, Rubik missed a number of revivals. 42 There was a steady growth in Behn productions in smaller London theatres from 2000 onwards.…”