<b>"We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues"</b><p>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 captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, <i>Oroonoko </i>(1688) reflects the author’s romantic view of Native Americans as simple, superior peoples ‘in the first state of innocence, before men knew how to sin’. The novel also reveals Behn’s ambiguous attitude to African slavery – while she favoured it as a means to strengthen England’s power, her powerful and moving work conveys its injustice and brutality.</p><p>This new edition of <i>Oroonoko</i> is based on the first printed edition of 1688, an
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<p>Restoration-era poet, playwright and novelist Aphra Behn was the first truly professional woman writer in English, and <i>Oroonoko</i> is her sophisticated and insightful condemnation of slavery. This Penguin Classics edition is edited...
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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...
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<p>Aphra Behn (1640¿1689), a prolific and popular playwright, poet, novelist, and translator, has an extensive corpus of literature that plays a key role in literary history as the work of a female author. Based upon word counts, <em>Quantitative...
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The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers is the most popular play by the Restoration playwright and spy Aphra Behn, first performed in 1677. The play follows the wild exploits of a group of English gentlemen in Naples at carnival time, although many...
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