Southerne's play based on the Behn novella. I really enjoyed delving into criticism on this one and I found it really interesting to have the parallel structures of a marriage and slavery plot set up to highlight the issues within each institution.

for an old ass play? 3.75 stars. abolitionist, interesting lil side plot (i love gaming someone) and much better than the original novel. big fair enjoy even though some phrasing was odd and some characters were off asl. may return to this later in the career. perhaps. it like if you have to read an

A good enough read…the heroic/tragic aspects were done beautifully, but I’m not exactly sure what the Charlotte and Lucia storyline had to do with anything.

"I have sent his ghost
To be a witness of that happiness
In the next world which he denied us here."

We can see two intertwined storylines in this play, the first one is the story of Oroonoko, the other one is the story of Charlotte, who schemes to find herself and her sister a husband.

2,5 stars

2.5

(Read for school)

On the assumption that anyone having dug out this play will approach it as an adaptation of, and probably having read, Aphra Behn's short early novel Oroonoko, comparison is the logical place to start: Southerne's play is not quite as interesting, and certainly not as viscerally involving, as its so

People are way too harsh with this play. It is a solid heroic tragedy. The marriage of the A-plot to the very silly B-plot is really weird, I will admit, and Southerne himself thought as much. But this hardly hampers the tragic aspect of the A-plot.

like, whatever

Southerne had to tone down the intensity of the Behn version in order to suit the patrons of English theater, that is understandable. However, this really is a terrible adaptation. The original story is turned upside down, making the protagonist seem like a rowdy runaway slave rather than a heroic p