qtd. in
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
182
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Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | It was frequently adapted and recycled. A French translation by Pierre Antoine de La Place
, 1745, sentimentalises the story, provides a happy ending, and adds the Histoire d'Imoinda. As a prose narrative Oroonoko... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | Aspects of this story were re-used by Jane Barker
(for Philinda's Story out of the Book in The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen, 1725) and by Thomas Southerne
and David Garrick
for works for... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Aphra Behn | Behn's death, this elegy says, is a disaster for women's writing, for no other woman dares her Laurel wear. qtd. in Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987. 182 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Phebe Gibbes | In addition to its over-riding themes of colonialism and the marriage market, this novel, set in early British Calcutta (and incorporating a good deal of travel book material), is much concerned with literature and with... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Meeke | The Old Wife and Young Husband (with quotations from David Mallet
and Thomas Southerne
on its title-page) opens in medias res as Jane Hanham cries, Mercy upon me, brother!—good Heavens! Captain, how could you think... |
politics | Hannah More | Her participation in a form of direct action (in a cause she had already supported in print) was a prelude to her more vigorous action, in a leadership role, in the cause of the English... |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | Charles Gildon
had a manuscript of this play. The success of Southerne
's adaptation of Oroonoko probably inspired him to get The Younger Brother staged; he may well have revised it first. Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997. 336-7 |
Textual Production | Aphra Behn | According to its title-page, it was published in 1689. O’Donnell, Mary Ann. Aphra Behn: An Annotated Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources. Garland, 1986. 155 |
Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | That is, it was played by a company denuded (by the actors' walkout of autumn 1694) of the talents of Betterton
, Bracegirdle
, and Barry
, but invigorated a month or so earlier by... |
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