[PDF] Oroonoko The Rover And Other Works eBook

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 2003-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0141958871

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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 captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn’s visit to Surinam, Oroonoko (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.

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : Joe Books Ltd
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1987955684

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The magic of Naples during Carnival inspires love between a disparate group of local citizens and visiting Englishmen.

Author : Derek Hughes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2004-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139826948

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Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.

Author : Janet Todd
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1448212545

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'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet, novelist and spy: the date of her death, 16 April 1689. For the rest secrecy and duplicity are almost the key to her life. She loved codes, making and breaking them; writing her life becomes a decoding of a passionate but playful woman. Janet Todd draws on documents she has rediscovered in the Dutch archives, and on Behn's own writings, to tell a story of court, diplomatic and sexual intrigue, and of the rise from humble origins of the first woman to earn her living as a professional writer. Aphra Behn's first notable employment was as a Royal spy in Holland; she had probably also spied in Surinam. It was not until she was in her thirties that she published the first of the 19 plays and other works which established her fame (though not riches) among her 'good, sweet, honey-candied readers'. Many of her works were openly erotic, indeed as frank as anything by her friends Wycherley and Rochester. Some also offered an inside view of court and political intrigues, and Todd reveals the historical scandals and legal cases behind some of Behn's most famous 'fictions'.

Author : Katherine U. Henderson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 31,2 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780252011740

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Since the very beginnings of literature, "half humankind"--The female of the species-has been an irresistible subject for the pens of the other half.

Author : Aphra Behn
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775415600

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Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers and Oroonoko was one of her earliest works. It is the love story between Oroonoko, the grandson of an African king, and the daughter of that king's general. The king takes the girl into his harem, and when she plans to escape with his grandson, sells her as a slave. When Oroonoko tries to follow her he is caught by an English slave trader and taken to the same West Indian island as his love.

Author : Silvia Federici
Publisher : Autonomedia
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1570270597

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"Women, the body and primitive accumulation"--Cover.

Author : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393079384

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"Stanley Corngold's translation is a triumph. This is a glorious achievement, a Werther for the ages."--Christopher Prendergast

Author : Ben Jonson
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 2015-07-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781515119777

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Epicoene, or The silent woman, also known as Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. It was originally performed by the Blackfriars Children or Children of the Queen's Revels, a group of boy players, in 1609. It was, by Jonson's admission, a failure on its first presentation; however, John Dryden and others championed it, and after the Restoration it was frequently revived-indeed, a reference by Samuel Pepys to a performance on 6 July 1660 places it among the first plays legally performed after Charles II's ascension. The play takes place in London. Morose, a wealthy old man with an obsessive hatred of noise, has made plans to disinherit his nephew Dauphine by marrying. His bride Epic ne is, he thinks, an exceptionally quiet woman; he does not know that Dauphine has arranged the whole match for purposes of his own. The couple are married despite the well-meaning interference of Dauphine's friend True-wit. Morose soon regrets his wedding day, as his house is invaded by a charivari that comprises Dauphine, True-wit, and Clerimont; a bear warden named Otter and his wife; two stupid knights, La Foole and Daw; and an assortment of "collegiates," vain and scheming women with intellectual pretensions. Worst for Morose, Epic ne quickly reveals herself as a loud, nagging mate."