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单词 Oroonoko
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Oroonoko
  • 简明释义
  • n.奥罗诺科:阿夫拉·贝恩(Aphra Behn)于1688年创作的一部小说,讲述了一位非洲王子被奴隶贩子出卖到南美殖民地的故事,该小说被认为是英国文学史上第一部反奴隶制小说。
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  • 1.

    Affianced to the lovely Imoinda, the warrior prince Oroonoko, heir to a west African throne, is obliged to suffer the king his grandfather's insistence on his droit de seigneur.

    ECONOMIST: Theatre at Stratford

  • 2.

    When the king dies, Orumba satisfies his ambition for the crown by selling Oroonoko too, and the lovers end up in the British colony of Surinam, where Oroonoko leads a slave rebellion, is betrayed, imprisoned and finally killed.

    ECONOMIST: Theatre at Stratford

  • 3.

    Behn's high-nosed, thin-lipped and French-educated Oroonoko is essentially an idealised European prince in blackface, while the sighs and tremblings of the lovers and the wanton dalliance of the king have an air of cupids and harpsichords and peeping breasts.

    ECONOMIST: Theatre at Stratford

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