Between Moorea and Bellamora: melancholy, criticism and vindication. An inquiry on Aphra Behn’s characters

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Juan D. D. TORRALBO CABALLERO

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This paper aims to present a thorough, albeit condensed, analysis of the characters Aphra Behn created along two short stories. The Unfortunate Bride; or, The Blind Lady A Beauty is studied from the characters perspective in order to corroborate how the author creates some paradigmatic characters following the theory of humours, particularly by means of Moorea. Secondly, The Adventure of the Black Lady is scrutinized to approach the making of the characters in order to highlight the salient features characterizing Bellamora. Finally, we intend to illustrate the achievement in other characters in relation to humorism, what is noticeably confirmed in early Seventeenth-Century English Literature by other writers such as Ben Jonson or George Chapman.

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TORRALBO CABALLERO, J. D. D. (2013). Between Moorea and Bellamora: melancholy, criticism and vindication. An inquiry on Aphra Behn’s characters. Alfinge. Revista De Filología, 25, 115–129. https://doi.org/10.21071/arf.v25i.3352
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