Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press.
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Thomas Southerne
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Standard Name: Southerne, Thomas
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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. 155 |
| 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. Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press. 182 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Oroonoko</span>”;. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, pp. 47-66. 51
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.
Texts
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