1. Thomas Southerne was the son of Francis Southerne and Margaret Southerne.
23 Facts About Thomas Southerne
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Thomas Southerne had one daughter, Agnes, of whom the mother is unknown.
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Thomas Southerne attended Trinity College, Dublin, in 1676 for two years.
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In 1684, Thomas Southerne produced his second play, The Disappointment, or, The Mother in Fashion.
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However, in 1685 Thomas Southerne enlisted as an ensign in Princess Anne's Regiment of the Duke of Berwick's Foot.
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Thomas Southerne rapidly rose to the rank of captain, but his military career came to an end in 1688 at the Glorious Revolution.
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The plays Thomas Southerne had written before he withdrew from the army would see the light of day, for he returned to theater.
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In 1690 "Thomas Southerne made his first financial profit from his work".
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Thomas Southerne's contemporaries valued him for his ability to portray intensely emotional scenes and for his "pure" language.
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Thomas Southerne worked in the tradition of Otway, and his tragedies point the way to his successor, Nicholas Rowe.
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Thomas Southerne's play was staged in 1695 and published in 1696, with a foreword in which Thomas Southerne expresses his gratitude to Behn and praises her work.
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One of the major changes that Thomas Southerne made to his play from Behn's version was that he turned Imoinda's skin color from black to white.
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Thomas Southerne plays with the idea of a double plot: one path that deals with the tragic fates of the newly interracial African lovers and the other on Charlotte's comical take on finding rich husbands for herself and her sister.
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Thomas Southerne was the one who used her words to persuade Oroonoko to kill them both and vindicate the honor and the innocence of their love.
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Thomas Southerne was the one who helped guide his knife into her body.
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Behn ends the novel with the brutal death of Oroonoko, but the play written by Thomas Southerne ends with the "love death" with Imoinda fulfilling his pact with her.
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Thomas Southerne emphasizes Oroonoko's honor and writes about how Oroonoko gave a speech on justifying slavery in terms of private property and civil contract.
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Thomas Southerne uses character techniques within Villeroy to display the once innocence of Isabella which enhanced the theme of the play.
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Thomas Southerne was admired for his character technique and was skilled at creating realistic characters and enhancing other characters with the use of newly created personalities.
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Thomas Southerne scored another conspicuous success in Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave.
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The Wives' Excuse was a play Thomas Southerne wrote in the late 1660s.
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Thomas Southerne's other plays were: The Disappointment, or the Mother in Fashion, founded in part on the Curioso Imperlinente in Don Quixote; The Wives Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves ; The Maids Last Prayer; or Any rather than fail ; The Fate of Capua ; The Spartan Dame, taken from Plutarch's Life of Aegis; and Money the Mistress.
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Thomas Southerne's work was collected as Plays written by Thomas Southerne, with an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author.