HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Advantageous, Edward Said, Alternative Facts
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Langson library special collections 570 (5th floor) o o. Play play the knave! (interactive video game letting you design scenes from shakespeare) Book meant to be read esp. by women readers at a time when more & more women were learning how to read. Author aphra behn was first professional writer in english: responding to a change between her day and shakespeare"s day. Moving away from fantasy into something like the real world. This novella set in real places: giving names that her english readers would have known, real places in the physical world, 2 different places. Africa - particularly the west coast, what is today ghana (uses name coramantien) South america - sorinan (english colony on east coast of south america) Based on real events in the life of the author: wrote it near the end of her life. She went to sorinan when it was an english colony.
