Claire Bowditch

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In Our Time · Archive: Aphra Behn · 6 Aug 2026 podcast

feminine terms so for instance she praises them as fathers both fathers of their in Charles' case illegitimate sons and fathers of the nation so she couches that in domesticity really and she also looks back as Jan was saying to the classics and there the classical heroes are used in place of support of the monarchy

or support specifically of Charles or James.

So her support works on really two different levels, I think, one on a quite learned level and one on quite a domestic level.

We don't have any specific record of favours that were given to her, for instance.

In 1681, she did dedicate one of her plays, the second part of The Rover...

to the future James II.

And one might assume she was in some sense remunerated for that, whether financially or through some kind of court favour.

But I think if she'd received any kind of gratuitous favour, she would have been satirised by somebody and we would know about that.

So I think it was probably proportional to either the work that she was doing or what other people were receiving.

Well, part of the real charm of The Widow Runter is its collection of very varied characters, because part of the cast is made up of Englishmen who have been transported to the colonies.

So they've committed a petty crime in England and they've been transported over there.

And because of the lack of government, it's up to them to form some kind of order.

So on the one hand, there's that going on, as Ros was saying, in relation to Arunachal.

There's a missing governor.

So a little bit of a topsy-turvy world.

And the two texts definitely share that aspect.

The widow ranter is possibly as close as we might come in Ben to that female rake for one particular reason, which is that she revels in smoking.

She smokes a pipe.

She gets drunk.

She's mostly drunk by lunchtime.

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