ABSTRACT
THE Merit of the tragic Scenes in this Play, has been universally acknowledged; because their Power has been universally and forcibly felt: The Plot is simple, yet there is a sufficient Number of Events to make the Representation active and busy; to raise and gratify Expectation; and to render the Issue interesting and important: The Attention is, throughout, invariably fixed upon the two principal Characters, Oroonoko and Imoinda; who are so connected as to make but one Object, in which all the Passions of the Audience, moved by the most tender and exquisite Distress, are concentered.
