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  "path": "/article/786301/in-or-legendary-playwright-aphra-behn-is-the-star-but-not-the-standout/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-21T15:39:18.000Z",
  "site": "https://washingtoncitypaper.com",
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    "Atlas Performing Arts Center",
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  "textContent": "History is populated with criminally underrated women who never got their due in their day and barely get it now. Take Aphra Behn, widely touted as the first professional playwright in the English language, who scarcely pops up anywhere outside a theater syllabus despite being as deft an author of comedy as anyone of the […]",
  "title": "In Or, Legendary Playwright Aphra Behn is the Star, but Not the Standout"
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