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Linda Winer

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Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

When we first meet Aphra Behn, she is writing to Charles II from debtors' prison.

It seems she hasn't paid her bills because the king, for whom she has been working as a spy, reneged on her salary. Now that England is getting its high spirits back after plague, fire and the Puritans, Aphra is eager to get out and start her new career - as a playwright.

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