The Rover

• Ann Stewart (2010) - the introduction of the female body to the stage meant that she became a spectacle.
• The Rover, published in 1677
• The Rover: “Now, how like a Morris dancer I am equipped! A fine ladylike whore to cheat me thus, wihtout affording me a kindness for my money!… Oh how I’lll use all womankind hereafter” - Blunt
• The Rover, Angelica: “My richest treasure being lost, my honour"
• The Rover, Angelica: “Live to undo someone whose soul may prove so bravely constant to revenge my love"
• The Rover, Belville to Wilmore: “Ah, plague of your ignorance! If it had not been Florinda, must you be a beast, a brute, a senseless swine?"
• The Rover, Hellena: “Let but old gaffer Hymen and his priest say amen to’t ”… “without fear or blushing"
• The Rover, Wilmore: marriage is the “bane of love"
• Anne Stewart (2010): rape as part of restoration drama to bring intrigue
• Anita Pacheco, 1998: Belville is the “champion of chastity and class distinction” not “an opponent of rape.
• Anita Pacheco, 1998: Florinda “represents patriarchal feminine ideals"
• Anita Pacheco, 1998: The lack of Angelica’s virginity “is the essential inescapable meaning of her life"
• The Rover, Angelica is a “virago"
• Anita Pacheco, 1998: "The patrilineal prize: the intact hymen"