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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Oroonoko
Other Books by This Author
Illuminations for Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Contents
1. The Mysterious Life of Aphra Behn
Oroonoko as Fact—Selections from A Memoir of Mrs. Behn by Montague Summers (1915)
Illustration: Portrait of Anne Bracegirdle in The Indian Queen (circa 1690)
Oroonoko as Fiction—Selections from Anniversary Papers by Colleagues and Pupils of George Lyman Kittredge (1913)
2. Behn’s Amorous Reputation
Sensual Poetry—“The Disappointment” by Aphra Behn (1680)
Love Letters—Selection from All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn (1718)
3. European Attitudes Towards Africans
Illustration: Inigo Jones’s costume design for Ben Jonson’s The Masque of Blackness (1605)
An Account of a Slave Love Triangle—Joseph Addison in The Spectator (1711)
As the Noble Savage—Selection from Of Cannibals by Michel de Montaigne (1603)
4. Oroonoko on the Stage
The First Play Adaption—Selections from Oroonoko: A Tragedy as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal by Thomas Southerne (1696)
Inclusion in Compilations—Table of Contents from eighteenth-century compilations of noteworthy plays
Illustration: “Mr. Savigny in the Character of Oroonoko” (1776) and “Mrs. Hartley in the Character of Imoinda” (1777)
An African Prince’s Reaction—Selection from The London Magazine, or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer 18 (1749)
5. Oroonoko’s Africa
A Brief History of the Slave Trade—Selection from Rufus W. Clark’s The African Slave Trade (circa 1860)
An Account of Exploration—Selections from A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea by Willem Bosman (1754)
Illustration: “The Fort Amsterdam at Cormentyn” (1752)
A Slave Trader Meets with an African King—Selection from A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal by Thomas Phillips (1752)
6. Oroonoko’s Suriname
Map: “The Guiana Coast and Rivers” (1923)
Life in Suriname—Selections from George Warren’s An Impartial Description of Surinam (1667)
Illustrations: Drawings from John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796)
7. Reception
In Praise of Aphra Behn—Selection from David Erskine Baker’s The Companion to the Play-house (1764)
A 1771 Stage Review—Selection from John Potter’s The Theatrical Review; or, New Companion to the Play-House (1772)
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