Oronoko, ou Le Prince Négre

Oronoko, ou Le Prince Négre

Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Oroonoko

Oroonoko stands with a knife clenched in his right hand, leaning back and looking at his wife Imoinda over his left shoulder. His left arm and hers cross, as she leans toward him. Oroonoko's muscles on his arms and legs are tense. Both are wearing classically inspired garb; he is wearing shoes--perhaps the buskin of tragic drama. Imoinda's drapery conceals all but her left arm. Her hair loosely hangs about her shoulders. They stand in a wooded grove.

de La Place, Pierre Antoine

de La Place, Pierre Antoine. Oronoko, ou Le Prince Négre. London and Paris: Vente, 1769.

de La Place, Pierre Antoine. Oronoko, ou Le Prince Négre. London and Paris: Vente, 1769.

Layson, Hana and Amelia Zurcher. "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: Slavery and Race in the Atlantic World." Newberry: Digital Collections for the Classroom. Web.

1769

Southerne, Thomas. Oroonoko, a tragedy

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