Staging Slavery through Historiographic Metatheatre: Lorena Gale’s Angélique and Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus

This essay discusses two plays ascribable to the genre of historiographic metatheatre. Angélique by African Canadian actress, director, and playwright Lorena Gale focuses on Marie-Joseph Angélique (1705-1734), the black bondswoman who was tried and executed for starting the fire that destroyed large...

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Main Author: Valentina Rapetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Udine 2024-11-01
Series:Le Simplegadi
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Online Access:https://le-simplegadi.it/article/view/1675
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