"By Thomas Southern ; adapted for theatrical representation, as performed at the Theatres-Royal, Drury-Lane and Covent-Garden ; regulated from the prompt- ...
1791 - Gale Group | NCCO Corvey
The Paradoxes of Slavery in Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko Diana Jaher Critics generally base their analyses of ambivalent representations of slavery in Oroonoko, Thomas Southerne's popular 1695 play, on its hero.1 By concentrating on Oroonoko, an African prince, many scholars argue that Southerne ( ... the play's source, Aphra Behn's novella Oroonoko; Or The Royal Slave (1688), Oroonoko, is, in fact, an extraordinary case: an idealized ... condition, if not its associated cruelties. Southerne's Oroonoko, however, depicts a third slave of almost equal ...
Tópico(s): Colonialism, slavery, and trade
2008 - Western Michigan University | Comparative drama
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0000 - Gale Group | SASII
... Glorious to survive to all Ages ... --Aphra Behn, Oroonoko The attempt to memorialize, which Behn's narrator stages at various moments in Oroonoko, lies at the heart of epic's ideology ... or apologetically by a female narrator (as in Oroonoko), ultimately preserves its names, or memoria, on terms ... Name to empire's longevity: Mr. Trefry gave Oroonoko [the name] of Caesar; which will live in ... Behn's own memorializing project. While criticism of Oroonoko has often discussed the narrator's ambivalence toward ... political or imperial structures. In the middle of Oroonoko, for example, after Oroonoko and Imoinda are reunited ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2002 - University of North Texas Press | Studies in the novel
... include Adelaide P. Amore on the parallels between Oroonoko and Christ in her introduction to Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or. The Royal Slave: A Critical Edition, ed. ... memorializing Charles I in "The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves," The New Eighteenth ... of Race, Class and Gender: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko," Women's Studies 19 (1991), 169-73. EIGHTEENTH- ... in portraying successful rebellions against those in power—Oroonoko and Imoinda are defeated both at home and ... the role of deceit by whites in manipulating Oroonoko,3 but consciously crafted deceit is only one ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
1995 - University of Toronto Press | Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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... Wu", The Theatres A Military Comedy, Malvern Festival "Oroonoko", August Reviews, Choral Singing At Eisteddfod A Close ...
1932 - Gale Group | TDA
... The Map of Slavery" in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko Adam Sills (bio) "Wouldst thou the map of ... Man (1788) Reading and interpreting Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; or The Royal Slave (1688) through the lens ... back into the novel, these critics instead resituate Oroonoko within a genealogy of seventeenth-century literary texts, ... on Behn's novel apart from early realism. Oroonoko is thus viewed as an amalgamation of well- ... the confluence of forces that shaped not only Oroonoko but also the literary and aesthetic milieu of ... if not marginal, position in our considerations of Oroonoko, they fail to consider the possibility that Behn' ...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
2006 - Eastern Michigan University | Journal of Narrative Theory
... Majesty's, Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. This Evening, Oroonoko., The Times King's Theatre., BRITISH PAINT-MANUFACTORY, ...
1817 - Gale Group | TDA
The Disappearing African Woman: Imoinda in Oroonoko After Behn Joyce Green MacDonald At the climax of a mid-eighteenth-century heroic tragedy, the black hero, discovered in a private ... first suggest, but rather John Hawkesworth’s 1759 Oroonoko. Clearly, as Hawkesworth refashions Thomas Southerne’s 1696 ... to fix “Attention . . . upon the two principal Characters, Oroonoko and Imoinda, who are so connected as to ... radical racial and sexual ill-ease occasioned by Oroonoko. Audiences, it would seem, had a ready-made ...
Tópico(s): Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
1999 - Johns Hopkins University Press | ELH
... s. n.], 1804-1806; 442 sheets; 37 cm Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
... amount of criticism published about Aphra Behn's Oroonoko in the last few years, it is surprising ... debate takes its origin from the use in Oroonoko of language and arguments associated with classical republicanism, ... in her lifetime to be a staunch Tory.Oroonoko's speech inciting his fellow slaves to revolt, ... of Surinam, where much of the action of Oroonoko takes place, because the geography of that colony, ... his troops in quite the terms used by Oroonoko. The 'harangue' of this 'great captain', aimed at ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
2002 - Taylor & Francis | The Seventeenth Century
... s. n.], 1804-1806; 442 sheets; 37 cm Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
... Guffey called attention to the political topicality of Oroonoko, finding in it evidence of Behn's avid ... ideological issues of race, class, and gender.2 Oroonoko is resituated in its colonial context and attention ... colonial authority. 1 George Guffey, "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Occasion and Accomplishment," George Guffey and Andrew Wright, ... parallels between James and the mistreated royal slave Oroonoko, she attempts to gain the sympathy of her ... Duffy further explores this link, arguing that emotionally Oroonoko, lmoinda, and the unborn child are James n, ...
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
1996 - University of Toronto Press | Eighteenth-Century Fiction
... s. n.], 1828-1831; 224 sheets; 37 cm Oroonoko. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
The Passion of Oroonoko situatues Aphra Behn's novella Oroonoko (1689) within the context of debates about passive obedience and political obligation during the Revolution of 1688-9. It argues that Oroonoko leverages residual theories and forms of representing human ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
2012 - Johns Hopkins University Press | ELH
... s. n.], 1806-1808; 450 sheets; 40 cm Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
... the language of spectacle and extreme visuality in Oroonoko (1688) as a strategy for conveying exoticism to ... presents the New World landscape, Native American customs, Oroonoko's black body, and his heroism and victimization ... narrator's vicarious response to the spectacle of Oroonoko's public execution, I also suggest that the ...
Tópico(s): Colonialism, slavery, and trade
2012 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Eighteenth-Century Studies
... s. n.], 1816-1818; 452 sheets; 35 cm Oroonoko. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
Overtly locating Oroonoko within the new epistemologies of factual evidence and observational ethnography, Aphra Behn uses belief in new-world wonders ... royalist model of exemplarity through the character of Oroonoko, not so subtly critiquing her own society's ... deferral (and even deconstruction) of factual truth in Oroonoko to emphasize moral example, in terms of late ...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
2007 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
... s. n.], 1816-1818; 452 sheets; 35 cm Oroonoko. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
... man's African name was given as “Adomo Oroonoko Tomo,” though the middle name “Oroonoko” at least was surely not authentic, but borrowed from the popular romantic novel by Aphra Behn, Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave (1689). An official enquiry ... made for the repatriation of the interpreter “Adomo Oroonoko Tomo” to Dahomey, which was effected in the ...
Tópico(s): African history and culture studies
2002 - Cambridge University Press | History in Africa
... s. n.], 1816-1818; 452 sheets; 35 cm Oroonoko. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688), an intensely stirring work, has captivated scholars of Restoration English literature in the last two decades with its ... characterize cultural and national identities. Among her works, Oroonoko is most keenly attentive to this issue. Studies ... constructed Behn of the narrative and the character Oroonoko, the notion of the noble savage or natural ... and political posturing within the scope of representing Oroonoko and Imoinda. What was seen in the Restoration ... s continuation, and she asks does she pity Oroonoko because he is a noble chief in captivity ...
Tópico(s): Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics
1997 - | Studies in short fiction
... s. n.], 1816-1818; 452 sheets; 35 cm Oroonoko. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
Reading Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) as a creative intervention into philosophical debates about political obligation allows us to understand its critical contribution to the ... debated Behn's political affiliations, this paper locates Oroonoko in the midst of ongoing conversations about the ...
Tópico(s): Australian History and Society
2013 - Johns Hopkins University Press | ELH
... s. n.], 1816-1818; 452 sheets; 35 cm Oroonoko. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
... discursive existence; the absence of meaning, that resembles Oroonoko‘s final sufferings and his death. Additionally, his ... is the rupturing of the concept of subjectivity, Oroonoko exceeds the limits of his phenomenological desires, the ...
Tópico(s): Samuel Beckett and Modernism
2010 - University of Gothenburg | Nordic Journal of English Studies
... s. n.], 1816-1818; 452 sheets; 35 cm Oroonoko. Performance Program.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
... Tales of Love and Gallantry: The Politics of Oroonoko,” Richard Kroll reads Aphra Behn’s text in ... to provoke. He shows the ways in which Oroonoko seeks polemically to engage with the political circumstances ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
2004 - University of Pennsylvania Press | Huntington Library Quarterly