Truth, wonder, and exemplarity in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko.(Critical essay) Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | June 22, 2007| | COPYRIGHT 2007 Rice University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

 
  [T]he historian, wanting the precept, is so tied, not to what should 
  be but to what is, to the particular truth of things and not to the 
  general reason of things, that his example draweth no necessary 
  consequence, and therefore a less fruitful doctrine. Now doth the 
  peerless poet perform both. 
  --Sir Philip Sidney (1) 

For years, a central issue in the discussion of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave. A True History has been whether it is true or false, factual or fabricated. (2) While most now believe the tale's core to be authentic, based on ...

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