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3 - The Lure of the Other

Jews, Nabobs and Enslaved Africans in a Transcolonial Imaginary

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2022

Kathleen Wilson
Kathleen Wilson
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State University of New York, Stony Brook
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The confrontation of the foreign was a key aspect of the theatrical culture of eighteenth-century British culture. The performances of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s comic opera The Duenna (1775) in Kingston, Jamaica, and his comedy The School for Scandal (1777) in Calcutta, Bengal, enabled residents to embrace both the love of alterity and the longing for home that were each endemic to colonial life, as the comic figures of the Jew and the nabob and the forlorn figure of the enslaved child suggested that Britishness and otherness were not far removed from each other, as theatrical performance in circulation began to sketch in more similarities than differences dividing us from them.

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slaveryenslavedJamaica JewsNabobsempireanxietythe foreignerthe other
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Strolling Players of Empire
Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833
 , pp. 156 - 198
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • The Lure of the Other
  • Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Book: Strolling Players of Empire
  • Online publication: 11 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108786317.005
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  • The Lure of the Other
  • Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108786317.005
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  • The Lure of the Other
  • Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Book: Strolling Players of Empire
  • Online publication: 11 November 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108786317.005
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