Thomas Southerne, DramatistYale University Press, 1933 - 237 pages |
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Page 131
... slave in the same colony and is being pursued by the Lieutenant - Governor with no honorable intentions . This touches Oroonoko with noble anger in a way that his own slavery had not , and he leads his fellow slaves in a re- volt which ...
... slave in the same colony and is being pursued by the Lieutenant - Governor with no honorable intentions . This touches Oroonoko with noble anger in a way that his own slavery had not , and he leads his fellow slaves in a re- volt which ...
Page 133
... slave too . Tuscan , Oroonoko's fellow slave and at- tendant in the novel , becomes Aboan in the play , but shows the same fidelity to his lord , staying by his side when all the other slaves desert the revolt through the blandishments ...
... slave too . Tuscan , Oroonoko's fellow slave and at- tendant in the novel , becomes Aboan in the play , but shows the same fidelity to his lord , staying by his side when all the other slaves desert the revolt through the blandishments ...
Page 157
... slave - master uses cruelly a worthy slave and his wife , who are finally released by the generous Firm- love . A three - act musical drama that was played at Covent Gar- den in 1816 shows somewhat the influence of Oroonoko . It is The ...
... slave - master uses cruelly a worthy slave and his wife , who are finally released by the generous Firm- love . A three - act musical drama that was played at Covent Gar- den in 1816 shows somewhat the influence of Oroonoko . It is The ...
Contents
Preface iii | 21 |
The Loyal Brother or The Persian Prince | 28 |
selves | 77 |
Copyright | |
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Aboan action Alphonso appears Behn Behn's Ben Jonson Biron Carlos Celona character Cibber Cleombrotus Colley Cibber comedy of manners comic Congreve Crites death Dedication dramatist Drury Lane Dryden Dublin Duke Edited with Introduction Elizabethan English Epilogue Erminia erne Eurytion Fatal Marriage Fate of Capua father Favonia Friendall Gayman Glossary hero heroic heroic drama honor husband Imoinda innocence intrigue Isabella Ismael John John Duncombe Lady Malepert later Leonidas Livy London lover Loyal Brother Magius Maid's Last Prayer married Money the Mistress moral Mourville novel Oroonoko Orrery Othello Otway Pacuvius pathos Ph.D plot Plutarch poet political Preface Prologue Restoration comedy Restoration Drama satire says scene Seliman Semanthe sentimental Shaftesbury Sir Anthony Love Sir Gentle situation slave Southerne Southerne's Southerne's play Spartan Dame stage story sub-plot success Sunamire Tachmas theatre Thelamia Thomas Thomas Southerne tion town tragedy tragic villain Villeroy Virginius virtue vols Warcourt wife Witwoud Wives