-
Oroonoko: or, the
Royal Slave is a work of
prose fiction by
Aphra Behn (1640–1689),
published in 1688 by
William Canning and
reissued with two
other fictions...
- works,
Oroonoko. It is
possible that she
acted as a spy in the colony.
There is
little verifiable evidence to
confirm any one story. In
Oroonoko, Behn...
- of the
Royal Navy have
borne the name HMS
Oroonoko,
after Oroonoko, or
possibly the Orinoco: HMS
Oroonoko was the Courser-class gun-brig HMS
Steady (ex...
- the
subjects of the
novel Oroonoko: Or the
Royal Slave (1688), by
Aphra Behn,
which is the
tragic love
story between Oroonoko and the
beautiful Imoinda...
-
emphasizes Oroonoko's honor and
writes about how
Oroonoko gave a
speech on
justifying slavery in
terms of
private property and
civil contract.
Oroonoko speaks...
-
experiences in the new
South American colony.
Oroonoko is the
grandson of a
Coromantin African king,
Prince Oroonoko, who
falls in love with Imoinda, the daughter...
- HMS
Oroonoko was the
French privateer Eugène,
which the
Royal Navy
bought in 1805 to
replace the
previous Oroonoko as a
prison ship at Port-of-Spain, Trinidad...
-
Progress from This World, to That
Which Is to Come (1678)
Aphra Behn,
Oroonoko: or, the
Royal Slave (1688) Anonymous,
Vertue Rewarded (1693)
Daniel Defoe...
- the
bearer with
their contemporaries is the
protagonist of
Aphra Behn's
Oroonoko (1688).
Although an
African prince, he
speaks French, has straightened...
- London's high society. Most notably, he
watched a live
performance of
Oroonoko, and, much to the audience's surprise, fled the
theatre in tears. The play...
