The Rover is a Restoration comedy about three expatriated Gentlemen and their erotogenic adventures with a group of women in Naples during Carnival time.
The opening scene introduces two sisters the stubborn Florinda and the open Hellena, the former is in an arranged marriage to an senior man called Don Vincentio yet loves Belvile, one of the Gentlemen.
Conflicts are incontinently established between the youthful women and their patriarchal society as neither Florinda nor Hellena is happy with their prospects'With outrage; and how near so far my father thinks I'm to marrying that abominated object' (I.1.17-18) and'And dost thou suppose that ever I will be a nun?
The world of these women appears to be restrictive and rough.
During this short scene, Blunt mentions plutocrat on two occasions'She's damnably in love with me, and willne'er mind agreements' (III.2.13-14), pertaining to the hookers of his native England as' greedy extravagant hustlers' (III.2.23).
The subversive rudiments in The Rover are arguably embodied in the womanish characters, most specially Florinda and Hellena, but also Lucetta.