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"Act[ing] Riotously": Theatre and Performance in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica (2021)
Journal Article
Valladares, S. (2022). "Act[ing] Riotously": Theatre and Performance in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica. The Review of English Studies, 73(309), 321-343. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgab040

Theatrical culture in early nineteenth-century Jamaica attests to tense relationships between tradition and innovation, acceptance and resistance. The early nineteenth century has not, however, received much in-depth treatment by historians of the Ja... Read More about "Act[ing] Riotously": Theatre and Performance in Early Nineteenth-Century Jamaica.

Afro-Creole Revelry and Rebellion on the British Stage: Jonkanoo in Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800) (2018)
Journal Article
Valladares, S. (2019). Afro-Creole Revelry and Rebellion on the British Stage: Jonkanoo in Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800). The Review of English Studies, 70(294), 291-311. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgy093

Scholarship on John Fawcett and Samuel Arnold’s Obi; or Three-Fingered Jack (Haymarket, 1800) has largely focused on how the pantomime (and its later melodrama adaptation by William Murray) were performed and received relative to maturing debates abo... Read More about Afro-Creole Revelry and Rebellion on the British Stage: Jonkanoo in Obi; or, Three-Fingered Jack (1800).

‘“All the world’s a stage & all the men are merely players”: Theatre-going in London during the Hundred Days’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Valladares, S. (2018). ‘“All the world’s a stage & all the men are merely players”: Theatre-going in London during the Hundred Days’. In K. Astbury, & M. Philp (Eds.), Napoleon’s 100 Days and the Struggle for Legitimacy (185-208). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70208-7_10

This essay seeks to situate the Hundred Days within the context of English popular culture by offering an examination of the plays staged at the patent theatres of Covent Garden and Drury Lane during Napoleon’s return to power. As sites closely monit... Read More about ‘“All the world’s a stage & all the men are merely players”: Theatre-going in London during the Hundred Days’.

‘The Changing Theatrical Economy: Charles Dibdin the Younger at Sadler’s Wells, 1814–19’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Valladares, S. (2018). ‘The Changing Theatrical Economy: Charles Dibdin the Younger at Sadler’s Wells, 1814–19’. In O. Cox Jensen, D. Kennerley, & I. Newman (Eds.), Charles Dibdin and Late Georgian Culture (171-188). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812425.003.0012

This chapter brings Charles Dibdin the Younger centre stage, facilitating an assessment of longer-term changes in the late Georgian cultural economy. The focus is the decline of Dibdin’s management of Sadler’s Wells in the years after 1814. The theat... Read More about ‘The Changing Theatrical Economy: Charles Dibdin the Younger at Sadler’s Wells, 1814–19’.

British Women Writers of Peninsular Fiction (2017)
Book Chapter
Valladares, S. (2018). British Women Writers of Peninsular Fiction. In I. Haywood, & D. Saglia (Eds.), Spain and British Romanticism, 1800-1840 (195-213). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64456-1_11

This chapter examines the impact of the Peninsular War on female-authored fiction of the 1810s, focusing on the contributions made by Mary Hill, Susan Fraser (who wrote under the pseudonym “Honoria Scott”), “Mrs Meeke” (a prolific contributor to the... Read More about British Women Writers of Peninsular Fiction.