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'Oronooko" tells the story of a fictional African prince, who is duped into slavery and sent to Surinam, a British colony in South America. There, with his beloved Imoinda also enslaved, he must use every ounce of his reasoning and nobility to per...

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Aphra Behn uppger i inledningen av Oroonoko (1668) att hon nedtecknar den sanna berättelsen om prins Oroonoko, som hon själv träffade i Surinam. I själva verket är hennes roman en komplex skapelse som blandar möjlig fakta med litterära fantasier. ...

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Restoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and Oroonoko is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introducti...

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Aphra Behn, the poet, playwright, novelist and political satirist was the first truly professional woman writer in English. This selection, edited and introduced by Professor Janet Todd, demonstrates the full sophistication and vitality of Aphra B...

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When Prince Oroonoko?s passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko?s noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English c...

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'I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero'. (Preface to The Lucky Chance). Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her plays and for her short novel Oroonoko, the sto...

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'I value fame almost as much as if I had been born a hero'. (Preface to The Lucky Chance). Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her plays and for her short novel Oroonoko, the sto...

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Aphra Behn (1640-89) achieved both fame and notoriety in her own time, enjoying considerable success for her plays and for her short novel Oroonoko, the story of a noble slave who loves a princess. Acclaimed by Virginia Woolf as the first English ...

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Aphra Behn was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements are now recognized less equivocally and her plays demonstrate wit, compassion, and remarkable range. This edition brings together her most important comedies. D...

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'We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues . . .'Spy, traveller and pioneering female writer Aphra Benn's story of an African prince sold into slavery is considered one of ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Isabel Adomakoh Young. Isabel's credits include The Provoked Wife with the RSC and playing Lady Macbeth in the West End with the National Youth Theatre Rep Company. This definitive rec...

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The first woman in England to make her living by writing, Aphra Behn (1640-1689) combines memoir, exotic travel narrative, and romance to tell the story of the noble Oroonoko, a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. The tal...

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The editor supplies explanatory annotations and textual notes. "Historical Backgrounds" is an especially rich collection of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century documents about colonizers and slaves in the new world. Topically arranged-&qu...

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Aphra Behn was among the wittiest and most prolific playwrights of her day The Widow Ranter is a tragi-comedy, The False Count concerns the marriage of a young woman to a much older man whilst The Lucky Chance ran into instant criticism for immora...

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In a collaboration between the BBC and the Women's Playhouse Trust, this is a stage production of Behn's restoration comedy on video. It includes interviews with Jules Wright, WPT director, and a discussion of the translation from stage to screen.

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A collaboration between the BBC and the Women's Playhouse Trust, this is the first stage production of Aphra Behn's restoration comedy on video. It includes an interview with Jules Wright, the Woman's Playhouse Trust director.

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In 1660 England celebrated the Restoration of the Stuarts, acclaiming the divine authority of the monarchy whose mortal weakness had been illustrated all too well. For the country that could kill its king, what could truly now be seen as sacred an...

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""Im no tame sigher, but a rampant lion of the forest,"" says Willmore, the Rover, on shore after a long voyage. ""I have a world of love in store,"" he claims, searching through the streets for a woman to p...

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This book presents a collection of the poetry of the 17th-century writer Aphra Behn. It examines the relationships between the sexes, seen from the woman''s point of view. The book also includes some of Behn''s translations, occasional pieces, sat...

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This book presents a collection of the poetry of the 17th-century writer Aphra Behn. It examines the relationships between the sexes, seen from the woman''s point of view. The book also includes some of Behn''s translations, occasional pieces, sat...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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