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title The Jamaican Stage 1655-1900 Profile of a Colonial Theatre - photo 1

title:The Jamaican Stage, 1655-1900 : Profile of a Colonial Theatre
author:Hill, Errol.
publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin:0870237799
print isbn13:9780870237799
ebook isbn13:9780585186948
language:English
subjectTheater--Jamaica--History, Jamaica--Social life and customs.
publication date:1992
lcc:PN2421.H55 1992eb
ddc:792/.097292
subject:Theater--Jamaica--History, Jamaica--Social life and customs.
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The Jamaican Stage 16551900
Profile of a Colonial Theatre
Errol Hill
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST
Page iv
Copyright 1992 by Errol Hill All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
LC 91-33344
ISBN 0-87023-779-9
Designed by Susan Bishop Set in Trump Medieval Type Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hill, Errol.
The Jamaican stage, 16551900 : profile of a colonial theatre / Errol Hill.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-87023-779-9 (alk. paper)
I. TheaterJamaicaHistory. 2. JamaicaSocial life and customs. I. Titl
PN2421.H55 1992
792'.097292dc20 91-33344
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Parts of chapter 11 appeared in "The Emergence of a National Drama in the West Indies," Caribbean Quarterly 18, no. 4 (December 1972), Errol Hill and the University of the West Indies. A shortened version of chapter 7 appeared as "The First Playwrights of Jamaica," in Carib No. 4 (1986), Journal of the West Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Errol Hill. A section of chapter 6 appeared as "Morton Tavares: Jamaican and International Actor,'' in Theatre Research International 15, no. 3 (Autumn 1990), Errol Hill and Oxford University Press.
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To the ancestral spirits
Picture 2
Indisputably, the love of drama abounds to an extent
which we venture to assert is unequalled
in this quarter of the globe.
Colonial Standard, Jamaica, April 17, 1889
Page vi
Page ix Contents List of Illustrations xi - photo 3
Page ix
Contents
List of Illustrations
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
1. Prologue: Charting the Course
3
2. Theatres of the Slave Era
14
3. Post-Emancipation Theatres
41
4. Plays and Players
72
5. Travail and Triumph
94
6. Jamaican Professional Actors
127
7. The First Playwrights
159
8. Readers, Reciters, Storytellers
188
9. Slave Performances
216
10. Performance Modes after Slavery
247
11. Epilogue: A Caribbean Perspective
272
Appendix A. Record of Productions in 1783
291
Appendix B. Catalog of Original Jamaican Plays
303
Notes
307
Selected Bibliography
325
Index
331

Page xi
Illustrations
1. Pitcairne's Plan of St. Jago de la Vega
22
2. Kingston Theatre on the Parade
39
3. Panoramic View of the Parade
39
4. Theatre Royal, ca. 1844
43
5. View along Harbour Street, Kingston
48
6. New Theatre Royal, 1897
66
7. Interior of New Theatre Royal, 1897
67
8. Colonel Charles James Ward
68
9. Ward Theatre
69
10. Frances Barnet Woollery
129
11. Rudolph de Cordova
140
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