qtd. in
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
182
Thomas Southerne
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Standard Name: Southerne, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
Timeline
1676: Tachmas, Prince of Persia: An Historical...
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1676
Tachmas, Prince of Persia: An Historical Novel (a translation by P. Porter
from the French of Jean Renaud de Segrais
) marks an early use of this genre term.
Downie, James Alan. “Mary Davys’s ’Probable Feign’d Stories’ and Critical Shibboleths about ’The Rise of the Novel’”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
12
, No. 2-3, Jan.–Apr. 2000, pp. 309-26. 311
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
February 1694: The Fatal Marriage: or The Innocent Adultery...
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February 1694
The Fatal Marriage: or The Innocent Adultery by Thomas Southerne
(or Southern), a tragedy based on Aphra Behn
's novel The History of the Nun: or, the Fair Vow-Breaker, probably had its first performance this month.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
By November 1695: Thomas Southerne (or Southern)'s Oroonoko,...
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By November 1695
Thomas Southerne
(or Southern)'s Oroonoko, a tragedy adapted for the stage from Aphra Behn
's novel of the same title (his second recent stage adaptation of Behn), had its first performance.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
25 February 1729: The Haymarket Theatre, hitherto occupied...
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25 February 1729
The Haymarket Theatre
, hitherto occupied by temporary foreign troupes, opened as a mainstream theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 987, 1017
1 February 1749: The Behn-Southerne play of Oroonoko had the...
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1 February 1749
The Behn
-Southerne
play of Oroonoko had the single most important performance . . . in its long history—
Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and OroonokoThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 47-66. 51
Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and OroonokoThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 47-66. 51-3 and n15, 20
1 December 1759: John Hawkesworth in turn adapted Thomas Southerne's...
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1 December 1759
John Hawkesworth
in turn adapted Thomas Southerne
's dramatic adaptation of Aphra Behn
's Oroonoko, making it for the first time a solidly anti-slavery text.
Basker, James G. “Intimations of Abolitionism in 1759: Johnson, Hawkesworth, and OroonokoThe Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 47-66. 47, 48, 53-5, 57, 59
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