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