Aphra Behn, One of Churchill’s Top Girls?: Assessing Caryl Churchill’s Lack of Deference to Behn’s Legacy

This thesis focuses on two English, feminist playwrights: Aphra Behn, a seventeenth-century playwright, and Caryl Churchill, a twentieth-century playwright. The thesis discusses feminist politics in the plays of each playwright, with particular attention paid to matters of gender, sexuality, politics, and economics. In the process, the thesis examines Churchill\u27s lack of overt deference to Behn\u27s legacy, and goes on to attribute this lack of deference to Churchill\u27s socialist politics, politics that directly conflict with Behn\u27s Tory leanings