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Isle of Slaves and Other Plays

Author : Pierrie de Marivaux
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479409855
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Isle of Slaves and Other Plays written by Pierrie de Marivaux and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are three French plays from the Enlightenment Period dealing with the subject of slavery. ISLE OF SLAVES, by Pierre de Marivaux, is the longest and most challenging of the three. It postulates an island in the ancient Greek world where the slaves have revolted and seized power, killing all of their former masters and declaring their independence. Now, any "masters" shipwrecked on their island are forced to live as slaves of their own slaves to impress upon them the wrongs they've committed. THE MERCHANT OF SMYRNA, by Nicolas Chamfort, and THE BEAUTIFUL SLAVE, by Antoine-Jean Dumaniant, both deal with the pain that Christian and Muslim lovers experience when one (or both) of them are captured and sold into slavery--and then are fortuitously freed by their new owners or through their own efforts. These dramas represent early moral judgments in the late eighteenth century on the evils of slavery, and as such, are important milestones in the history of European drama.

The Island of Slaves

Author : Pierre de Marivaux
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849439605
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Island of Slaves written by Pierre de Marivaux and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2002-04-22 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will become of us? Four people, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters, and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the other foot. Marivaux's potent mix of laughter, emotion and theatrical game-playing makes him one of the most surprising and most modern of all classic playwrights. Neil Bartlett has adapted this brilliant comedy of role-swapping and redemption, which premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in April 2002. Cast size: 4

Herculaneum & Sardanapalus: Two Opera Libretti

Author : Joseph Méry
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479401986
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Herculaneum & Sardanapalus: Two Opera Libretti written by Joseph Méry and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-02-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two opera libretti focusing on the theme of the fiery sacrifice of the protagonists. HERCULANEUM, by Joseph Méry, a friend of Alexandre Dumas, is set in 79 A.D. in the doomed city of Herculaneum. Olympia, an oriental queen, sister of the Proconsul Nicanor, falls in love with Helios, a Christian. The queen seduces Helios and takes him from his betrothed, Lilia. Nicanor then tries to seduce and rape Lilia, but is thwarted when Mount Vesuvius erupts. The Christians die happy, believing that they are saved. SARDANAPALUS, by Henri Becque, is a powerful retelling of the fall of Assyria, and the immolation of its last king in the ruins of his capital city. Two French tragedies of love and life in the classical period.

Castor and Pollux: An Opera Libretto

Author : Pierre Bernard
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479408689
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Castor and Pollux: An Opera Libretto written by Pierre Bernard and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In CASTOR AND POLLUX, by Pierre Bernard, one of the twins from ancient myth attempts to rescue his brother from the underworld. The freshness and charm of this French dramatization is remarkable.

Slave in a Palanquin

Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231552262
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Slave in a Palanquin written by Nira Wickramasinghe and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued presence of enslaved people in Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century has practically vanished from collective memory in both the Sinhalese and Tamil communities. Nira Wickramasinghe uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world, exploring moments of revolt in the lives of enslaved people in the wake of abolition. She tells the stories of Wayreven, the slave who traveled in the palanquin of his master; Selestina, accused of killing her child; Rawothan, who sought permission for his son to be circumcised; and others, enslaved or emancipated, who challenged their status. Drawing on legal cases, petitions, and other colonial records to recover individual voices and quotidian moments, Wickramasinghe offers a meditation on the archive of slavery. She examines how color-based racial thinking gave way to more nuanced debates about identity, complicating conceptions of blackness and racialization. A deeply interdisciplinary book with a focus on recovering subaltern resistance, Slave in a Palanquin offers a vital new portrait of the local and transnational worlds of the colonial-era Asian slave trade in the Indian Ocean.

Mameena, and Other Plays

Author : Henry Rider Haggard
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mameena, and Other Plays written by Henry Rider Haggard and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. Rider Haggard, best known as the author of King Solomon's Mines, She, and Allan Quatermain, also wrote three full-length plays. The play Mameena, based on Haggard's novel Child of Storm, is set in Zululand during the 1850s and deals with the struggle for the succession to the Zulu throne. Mameena was staged in 1914 by actor-manager Oscar Asche, who employed the Zulu expert James Stuart as technical adviser on the production. Star of Egypt was adapted from Haggard's ancient Egyptian romance Morning Star, while the historical melodrama To Hell or Connaught, set against the backdrop of the Cromwellian colonization of Ireland, was written expressly for the stage. All three plays are published here for the first time, together with previously unrecorded information on how they came to be written and, in the case of Mameena, performed.

Island Beneath the Sea

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063049643
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Island Beneath the Sea written by Isabel Allende and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea tells the story of one unforgettable woman—a slave and concubine determined to take control of her own destiny—in this sweeping historical novel that moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century “Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.”—Los Angeles Times The daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor, Zarité—known as Tété—was born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue. Growing up amid brutality and fear, Tété found solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the mysteries of voodoo. Her life changes when twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770 to run his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare. Overwhelmed by the challenges of his responsibilities and trapped in a painful marriage, Valmorain turns to his teenaged slave Tété, who becomes his most important confidant. The indelible bond they share will connect them across four tumultuous decades and ultimately define their lives.

Sacred Hunger

Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307948447
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Hunger written by Barry Unsworth and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp.

Slavery and Race

Author : Julia Jorati
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197659233
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Race written by Julia Jorati and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlightened--endorsed, funded, legislated, and executed the slave trade. This atrocity had a profound impact on philosophy, but historians of the discipline have so far neglected to address the topics of slavery and race. Many authors--including enslaved and formerly enslaved Black authors--used philosophical ideas to advocate for abolition, analyze racist attitudes, and critique racial bias. Other authors attempted to justify the transatlantic slave trade by advancing philosophical defenses of racial chattel slavery. Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century explores these philosophical ideas and arguments, with a focus on the role race played in discussions of slavery. In doing so, author Julia Jorati reveals how closely associated Blackness and slavery were at that time and how many White people viewed Black people as naturally destined for slavery. In addition to examining well-known authors like David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jorati also discusses less widely studied philosophers like Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Lemuel Haynes, and Olympe de Gouges. By revealing important aspects of debates about slavery in North America and Europe, this book and its companion volume on the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries are valuable resources for readers interested in a more complete history of early modern philosophy.

The Beauties of England and Wales

Author : John Britton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare: The Late Plays

Author : Kate Aughterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137375647
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare: The Late Plays written by Kate Aughterson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes Shakespeare's late plays so special? Through detailed analyses of key passages, Kate Aughterson shows how these plays portray a world of political intrigue, familial chaos and crisis, which teeters continually into tragedy: a world we can recognise today. Part I of this engaging study: - Provides stimulating close readings of extracts from The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and Pericles - Examines major topics such as openings, endings, familial roles, stage properties, spectacle and song - Offers suggestions for further work and summarizes the methods of analysis Part II supplies essential background material, including: - Detailed accounts of Shakespeare's literary and historical contexts - Samples from important critical works and performances With a helpful Further Reading section, this illuminating volume is ideal for anyone who wishes to appreciate and explore Shakespeare's late plays for themselves.

Beauties of England and Wales

Author : Britton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Beauties of England and Wales written by Britton and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County: pt. 1. Wiltshire

Author : John Britton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive, of Each County: pt. 1. Wiltshire written by John Britton and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Slave Trade to Empire

Author : Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135765898
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book From Slave Trade to Empire written by Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a new perspective on the colonisation of sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century and focuses on the role of Germany, France, Italy and Portugal.

The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights

Author : Trevor R. Griffiths
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Ivan R. Dee Guide to Plays and Playwrights written by Trevor R. Griffiths and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the most useful and comprehensive reference book for contemporary theatre now available.

Creating the Creole Island

Author : Megan Vaughan
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822386917
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Creating the Creole Island written by Megan Vaughan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social relations that developed on Mauritius under French colonial rule, paying particular attention to questions of subjectivity and agency. Combining archival research with an engaging literary style, Vaughan juxtaposes extensive analysis of court records with examinations of the logs of slave ships and of colonial correspondence and travel accounts. The result is a close reading of life on the island, power relations, colonialism, and the process of cultural creolization. Vaughan brings to light complexities of language, sexuality, and reproduction as well as the impact of the French Revolution. Illuminating a crucial period in the history of Mauritius, Creating the Creole Island is a major contribution to the historiography of slavery, colonialism, and creolization across the Indian Ocean.

Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints

Author : Michael J. Jarvis
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421443619
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints written by Michael J. Jarvis and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the small, isolated island of Bermuda help us to understand the early expansion of English America? First discovered by Europeans in 1505, the island of Bermuda had no indigenous population and no permanent European presence until the early seventeenth century. Settled five years after Virginia and eight years before Plymouth, Bermuda is a foundational site of English colonization. Its history reveals strikingly different paths of potential colonial development as a place where slave-owning puritan tobacco planters raised large families, engaged overseas markets, built ships, created a Christian commonwealth, hanged witches, wrestled to define racial difference, and welcomed godly pirates raiding Spanish America. In Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints, Michael J. Jarvis presents readers with a new narrative social and cultural history of Bermuda. Adopting a holistic, multidisciplinary approach that draws upon thirty years of research and archaeological fieldwork, Jarvis recounts Bermuda's turbulent, dynamic past from the Sea Venture's dramatic 1609 shipwreck through the 1684 dissolution of the Bermuda Company. He argues that the island was the first of England's colonies to produce a successful staple, form a stable community, turn a profit, transplant civic institutions, and harness bound African knowledge and labor. Bermuda was a tabula rasa that fired the imaginations of English thinkers aspiring to create an American utopia. It was also England's first puritan colony, founded as a covenanted Christian commonwealth in 1612 by self-consciously religious settlers who committed themselves to building a moral society. By the 1670s, Bermuda had become England's most densely populated possession and was poised to become an intercolonial maritime hub after freeing itself from its antiquated parent company. The first scholarly monograph in eighty years on this important, neglected colony's first century, Isle of Devils, Isle of Saints is a worthy prequel to In the Eye of All Trade, Jarvis's masterful first book. Revealing the dynamic interplay of race, gender, slavery, and environment at the dawn of English America, Jarvis's work challenges us to rethink how Europeans and Africans became distinctly American within the crucible of colonization.