SOURCE: "That Which I Dare Not Name': Aphra Behn's 'The Willing Mistress,'" in ELH, Vol. 58, No. 1, Spring, 1991, pp. 63-82.
In the following excerpt, Duyfhuizen explicates the poem "The Willing Mistress" through comparisons to other verse by Behn and to her drama The Dutch Lover, finding that the poem is a metaphor for a woman trying to retain her identity and control in a male-dominated world.
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