Lot 153
Behn (Aphra).- Southerne (Thomas) Oroonoko: A Tragedy, for H. Playford et al., 1696.
Hammer Price: £800
Description
Behn (Aphra).- Southerne (Thomas) Oroonoko: A Tragedy, title very slightly trimmed at top edge just touching letter O, lacking final blank (M4), spotted, uniform browning, disbound, remains of a later wrapper to lower cover, [Wing S4761], 4to, for H. Playford et al., 1696.
⁂ Based on Aphra Behn's novel of the same name (1688), which was partly founded on fact. Southerne's major change to Behn's plot, however, was to alter Imoinda's skin colour from black to white, his exploration being not so much of white or black womanhood during colonialism, but rather of the unfairness and the treatment of the slaves no matter their skin colour or gender.
Description
Behn (Aphra).- Southerne (Thomas) Oroonoko: A Tragedy, title very slightly trimmed at top edge just touching letter O, lacking final blank (M4), spotted, uniform browning, disbound, remains of a later wrapper to lower cover, [Wing S4761], 4to, for H. Playford et al., 1696.
⁂ Based on Aphra Behn's novel of the same name (1688), which was partly founded on fact. Southerne's major change to Behn's plot, however, was to alter Imoinda's skin colour from black to white, his exploration being not so much of white or black womanhood during colonialism, but rather of the unfairness and the treatment of the slaves no matter their skin colour or gender.
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