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Resisting Slavery (2018)
Digital Artefact
Valladares, S. (2018). Resisting Slavery. [Blog]

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’.