Oroonoko: Adaptations and Offshoots

ISBN-13: 9780815390992 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 391 str.

Susan B. Iwanisziw

Opis

With the aim of examining the postcolonial applications of Aphra Behn's re-entry into the literary canon, the editor presents this edition as a collection representing the nexus of very specific articulations of literary, cultural, and political tropes produced by various writers and adapters from 1695 through 1999.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Oroonoko, A Tragedy, Thomas Southerne; The Sexes Mis-Match'd, anonymous; Oroonoko, A Tragedy as it is now Acted at the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane, John Hawkesworth; Excerpts from Oroonoko: or the Royal Slave, A Tragedy, Francis Gentleman; Excerpts from Oroonoko, A Tragedy Altered from the Original Play of that Name, Written by the late Thomas Southern, Esq., anonymous; The Prince of Angola, John Ferriar; Slavery, A Poem, Hannah More; The Benevolent Planters, Thomas Bellamy; Aphra Behn's Oroonoko in a new adaptation by 'Biyi Bandele, 'Biyi Bandele; Selected bibliography.

O autorze

Susan B. Iwanisziw