for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. Behns series of references to the execution of Charles I punctuate the text with linkages to Oroonokos. Behn's work paved the way for women writers who came after her, as Virginia Woolf noted in a Room of One's Own (1928): "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn. Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (1688). The work was an instant success and was adapted for the stage in 1695 (and more recently by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1999). Perhaps based partly on Behn's own experiences living in Surinam, the novel tells the tragic story of a noble slave, Oroonoko, and his love Imoinda. Presents the original 1688 text of the classic work by Aphra Behnabout the slave. Download cover art Download CD case insert Oroonoko, or The Royal SlaveĪphra Behn was the first woman writer in England to make a living by her pen, and her novel Oroonoko was the first work published in English to express sympathy for African slaves. Since the 1970s, critics arguing that Aphra Behn is the foremother of British women writers, and that Oroonoko is a crucial text in. Oroonoko : an authoritative text, historical backgrounds, criticism /.
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