The barn was open from 7 a.m. until after midnight, and each student could sign up for three practice sessions daily on other old harpsichords as well as the Ruckers and the Dumont.
Behn's high-nosed, thin-lipped and French-educated Oroonoko is essentially an idealised European prince in blackface, while the sighs and tremblings of the lovers and the wanton dalliance of the king have an air of cupids and harpsichords and peeping breasts.