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  • Southerne, stipple engraving after a portrait by J. Worsdale
    In Thomas Southerne

    … anticipated 18th-century domestic tragedy, and Oroonoko showed affiliations with the earlier heroic plays of Dryden. The role of Isabella, which was first played by the great English actress Elizabeth Barry, gave Sarah Siddons one of her major successes a century later. The character of Oroonoko, an African prince enslaved in…

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