Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and by Hazel Waters

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By Hazel Waters

whereas there are numerous reviews of nineteenth-century race theories and medical racism, the attitudes and stereotypes expressed in pop culture have hardly ever been tested, after which just for the latter 1/2 the century. Theatre then was once mass leisure and those forgotten performs, rapidly written, surviving purely as hand-written manuscripts or reasonable pamphlets, are a wealthy seam for the cultural historian. Mining them to find how 'race' was once seen and the way the stereotype of the black constructed and degraded, sheds a desirable mild at the improvement of racism in English tradition. within the method, this publication is helping to provide an explanation for how a undeniable flexibility in attitudes in the direction of pores and skin color, observable on the finish of the eighteenth century, become the hardened jingoism of the past due 19th. focusing on the interval 1830 to 1860, its distinct excavation of a few seventy performs makes it useful to the theatre historian and black reports scholar.

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