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The Jamaican stage, 1655-1900 : profile of a colonial theatre / Errol Hill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585186944
  • 9780585186948
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jamaican stage, 1655-1900.DDC classification:
  • 792/.097292 20
LOC classification:
  • PN2421 .H55 1992eb
Other classification:
  • 24.06
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Prologue: Charting the Course -- 2. Theatres of the Slave Era -- 3. Post-Emancipation Theatres -- 4. Plays and Players -- 5. Travail and Triumph -- 6. Jamaican Professional Actors -- 7. The First Playwrights -- 8. Readers, Reciters, Storytellers -- 9. Slave Performances -- 10. Performance Modes after Slavery -- 11. Epilogue: Caribbean Perspective -- Appendix A. Record of Productions in 1783 -- Appendix B. Catalog of Original Jamaican Plays.
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Review: "A distinguished scholar here offers a thorough lively account of the Jamaican stage, arguably the most prominent theatre of its kind in the British colonies through 1900. Errol Hill discusses the struggle to maintain viable playhouses, the fortunes of visiting professional troupes, and the emergence of an indigenous theatre. He documents the plays written and produced through the end of the nineteenth century, presenting them against the background of a society emerging in the 1830s from a slave-holding system. He also explores the rituals, festivals, and other forms of entertainment enjoyed by the broad underclass of Jamaicans, most of whom were slaves or slave descendants, and who today number over 90 percent of the island's population." "By examining the record of theatrical production on the one hand, and the variety of indigenous performance on the other, Hill shows how a synthesis of native and foreign elements has occurred. He calls particular attention to the use of the Creole language, new performance patterns, and the integration of music, dance, mime, and masking. In the Epilogue, he extends his discussion to the anglophone Caribbean which has become politically independent of Britain."--Jacket.
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"A distinguished scholar here offers a thorough lively account of the Jamaican stage, arguably the most prominent theatre of its kind in the British colonies through 1900. Errol Hill discusses the struggle to maintain viable playhouses, the fortunes of visiting professional troupes, and the emergence of an indigenous theatre. He documents the plays written and produced through the end of the nineteenth century, presenting them against the background of a society emerging in the 1830s from a slave-holding system. He also explores the rituals, festivals, and other forms of entertainment enjoyed by the broad underclass of Jamaicans, most of whom were slaves or slave descendants, and who today number over 90 percent of the island's population." "By examining the record of theatrical production on the one hand, and the variety of indigenous performance on the other, Hill shows how a synthesis of native and foreign elements has occurred. He calls particular attention to the use of the Creole language, new performance patterns, and the integration of music, dance, mime, and masking. In the Epilogue, he extends his discussion to the anglophone Caribbean which has become politically independent of Britain."--Jacket.

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1. Prologue: Charting the Course -- 2. Theatres of the Slave Era -- 3. Post-Emancipation Theatres -- 4. Plays and Players -- 5. Travail and Triumph -- 6. Jamaican Professional Actors -- 7. The First Playwrights -- 8. Readers, Reciters, Storytellers -- 9. Slave Performances -- 10. Performance Modes after Slavery -- 11. Epilogue: Caribbean Perspective -- Appendix A. Record of Productions in 1783 -- Appendix B. Catalog of Original Jamaican Plays.

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