Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Dutch Politics, the Slavery-Based Economy, and Theatrical Culture in 1800
- 2 Suffering Victims: Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Glorification
- 3 Contented Fools: Ridiculing and Re-Commercializing Slavery
- 4 Black Rebels: Slavery, Human Rights, and the Legitimacy of Resistance
- 5 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index
1 - Antislavery Plays Published in the Netherlands, 1770–1810
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2023
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Dutch Politics, the Slavery-Based Economy, and Theatrical Culture in 1800
- 2 Suffering Victims: Slavery, Sympathy, and White Self-Glorification
- 3 Contented Fools: Ridiculing and Re-Commercializing Slavery
- 4 Black Rebels: Slavery, Human Rights, and the Legitimacy of Resistance
- 5 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- Index
Summary
This list solely contains plays in which an antislavery stance is promoted through textual and staging practices, written and translated in(to) Dutch between 1770 and 1810. It does not include plays that fall outside this timeframe and/or address slavery only indirectly, such as Jean Rochefort’s pantomimic ballet Isabelle en Don Ferdinant, of het Indiaansch feest (1802) or Zuma, of de ontdekking van den kinabast (1817)—the first does not directly address the institution of slavery and the second was published after 1810. Neither does this list mention so-called “Black ballets” or refer to productions such as De Schone Negerin, of Europeanen in Schipbreuk gered door Africaansche Negers (1792) because I was unable to retrieve details about their exact content. For clarity, and in order to stimulate transnational work on antislavery theater, I have added brief descriptions of each play.
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- Information
- Repertoires of SlaveryDutch Theater between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810, pp. 232 - 236Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2023