BibliographyPRIMARY MATERIAL – PLAYSAiken, G. L., Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, life among the lowly, French, 1868, no. 217
Aldridge, Ira, The Black Doctor, Dicks, no. 460
Bate, Henry [H. B. Dudley], The Blackamoor Wash'd White (1776) Larpent Collection, BL microfiche F253/403 (1–3). Catalogued in Larpent under Dudley
Behn, Aphra, Abdelazer, or the Moor's Revenge, reprinted in Janet Todd (ed.), The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume 5, The Plays, 1671–1677 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1996)
Bellamy, Thomas, The Benevolent Planters (London: Debrett, 1789)
Bickerstaffe, Isaac, The Padlock (London: W. Lowndes, S. Bladon and W. Nicoll, 1789)
Boucicault, Dion, The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana, in Thomson (ed.), Plays by Dion Boucicault
Bridgeman, I. V., The Black Doctor, Lacy, no. 331
Brooks, [Charles William] Shirley, The Creole; or, Love's Fetters, Lacy; Dicks, 1009
Campbell, A. L. V., More Ethiopians!! or ‘Jenny Lind’ in New York, 1847, BL Addl. Mss. 43003 ff. 727–759
Colman, George, the Younger, The Africans; or, War, Love and Duty, Cumberland, vol. 43
Colman, George, the Younger, Inkle and Yarico … with remarks by Mrs Inchbald (London: Longman et al., 1816)
Courtney, J., The Ship Boy; or, the White Slave of Guadeloupe, BL Addl. Mss. 43003 ff. 337–353b
Cox, Jeffrey N., (ed.), Seven Gothic Dramas, 1789–1825 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992)
Cox, Jeffrey N., (ed.), Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: writings in the British romantic period, Volume 5, Drama (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1999)
Dred: a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, BL Addl. Mss. 52961N
Fawcett, J., Obi, or, Three-finger'd Jack!, Duncombe, vol. 59/60
Ferriar, John, The Prince of Angola, a tragedy, altered from the play of Oroonoko and adapted to the circumstances of the present time (Manchester: J. Harrop, 1788)
Fitzball, E., The Koeuba; or, the Pirate Vessel, Cumberland, vol. 12
Fitzball, E., The Negro of Wapping or, the boat builder's hovel, Duncombe, vol. 29/30
Fitzball, E., Uncle Tom's Cabin, BL Addl. Mss. 52934G
George, G. H., A Colour'd Commotion: an Ethiopian extravaganza, BL Addl. Mss. 52934E
Haines, J. T., My Poll and my Partner Joe, Lacy, no. 1058
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Hazlewood, C. H., The Staff of Diamonds, French, no. 104
Jerrold, Douglas, Descart, the French Buccaneer, Dicks, no. 258
Jordan, R., and Love, H. (eds.), The Works of Thomas Southerne, Volume 2 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988)
Lake, J. W. (ed.), The Dramatic Works of George Colman the Younger … (Paris: Malepeyre, 1823)
Lemon, Mark, and Taylor, Tom, Slave Life; or, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Webster, vol. 17, no. 191
Lewis, M. G., The Castle Spectre, Dicks, no. 35; Cumberland, vol. 15; also in Cox, (ed.), Seven Gothic Dramas
Lhamon, W. T., Jump Jim Crow: lost plays, lyrics and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003)
Macready, William, The Irishman in London; or, the Happy African (London: T. N. Longman, 1793)
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Moncrieff, W. T., Tom and Jerry; or, Life in London, Lacy, vol. 88; Cumberland, vol. 33; Richardson's New Minor Drama, 1828; Dicks, no. 82
Morton, Thomas, The Slave, or the Mother and her Child: a musical drama in three acts (London: John Miller, 1816); Cumberland, vol. 22
Murrey [Murray], W. H., Obi; or, Three-fingered Jack, Dicks, no. 478
O'Bryan, Charles, Lugarto the Mulatto, Lacy, vol. 31, no. 460
Oxberry, W. H., and Gann, J. G., Mr. Midshipman Easy!, Duncombe, vol. 29–30
Parry, T., The Peacock and the Crow: a farce in two acts, BL Addl. Mss. 42940 ff. 371–97
Pitt, G. D., The Black Bayaderes, or the Rival Serenaders, BL Addl. Mss. 43003 ff. 380–428
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Pitt, G. D., Uncle Tom's Cabin: a nigger drama, BL Addl. Mss. 52935I
Planché, J. R., Mr Buckstone's Ascent of Mount Parnassus, Lacy, vol. 10
Rede, W. L., Life in America – the flight – the pursuit – the voyage, BL Addl. Mss. 42939 ff. 444–79
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[Rice, T. D.], Bone Squash: a burletta in one act, BL Addl. Mss. 42953 ff. 313–19
Rice, T. D., The Virginia Mummy: a farce in one act, BL Addl. Mss. 42940 ff. 822–67, incomplete
Robertson, Tom, The Half Caste; or, the Poisoned Pearl, Lacy, vol. 97, no. 241
Shakespeare, William, Othello, Arden edition, ed. Ridley, M. R. (London: Methuen, repr. 1985)
Shakespeare, William, Titus Andronicus, Arden edition, ed. Bate, Jonathan (London: Routledge, 1995)
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Somebody's in the House with Dinah or the invitation to the Nigger Ball, BL Addl. Mss. 43004 ff. 367–94
Southern (sic), Thomas, Oroonoko, a tragedy, The Acting Drama (London: Mayhew, Isaac and Mayhew, 1834); Oroonoko: a tragedy in five acts … with remarks by Mrs Inchbald (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, [1806]); R. Cumberland's The British Drama … containing Oroonoko (London: C. Cooke, 1817), vol. 11; Oroonoko … with remarks by D. G., Cumberland, vol. 25/6
Southerne, Thomas, Oroonoko, ed. Novak, M. E. and Rodes, D. S. (London: Edward Arnold, 1977; also in Jordan and Love (eds.), Works of Thomas Southerne
Stirling, Edward, The Buffalo Girls, or, the Female Serenaders, Duncombe, vol. 59
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Stirling, Edward, Yankee Notes for English Circulation, Duncombe, vol. 46
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Suter, W. E., Dred: a tale of the Dismal Swamp, Lacy, vol. 57, no. 848
Taylor, T. P., Jim Crow in His New Place, BL Addl. Mss. 42950 ff. 593–602b
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Towers, J. Johnson, Dred: a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, BL Addl. Mss. 52962G
Uncle Tom and Lucy Neal; or, Harlequin Liberty and Slavery, BL Addl. Mss. 52936Z
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, the Negro Slave, BL Addl. Mss. 52934C
Vincent, Eliza, Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, the Fugitive Slave!, BL Addl. Mss. 52934F
Webster, B. N., The Quadroon Slave, BL Addl. Mss. 42960 ff. 326–414
Wells, Stanley, Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare Burlesques, Volume 2, Maurice Dowling (1834) to Charles Beckington (1847) (London: Diploma Press, 1977)
Captain Williams, The Woman of Colour, BL Addl. Mss. 52943E
Wilson, George, The Male and Female Serenaders, or Native Talent's Best, BL Addl. Mss. 43003 ff. 644–664
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Young, Edward, The Revenge: a tragedy (London: J. Rivington and Sons, 1776). Also included in Mrs Inchbald's British Theatre (London: Longman Hurst, 1806), vol. 4, and The Acting Drama: containing all the popular plays standard and modern, revised by J. P. Kemble (London: Mayhew, Isaac and Mayhew, 1834), among others.
PRIMARY MATERIAL – BACKGROUNDà Beckett, Gilbert Abbot, The Quizziology of the British Drama (London: Punch, 1846)
Baker, D. E., Biographia Dramatica or, a Companion to the Playhouse (London: Rivingtons, 1782)
Baker, D. E., Reed, Isaac, and Jones, Stephen, Biographia Dramatica, or a Companion to the Playhouse … (London: Longman Hurst, 1812), 3 vols.
Behn, Aphra, Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave in Oroonoko and Other Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, first publ. 1688)
Bradley, J. L. (ed.), Henry Mayhew: selections from ‘London Labour and the London Poor’ (London: Oxford University Press, 1965)
A Brief Memoir, and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, the African Tragedian (London: Henry Pownceby, n.d.)
Briggs, John, The History of Jim Crow (London: Smallfield and Son, 1839)
Brown, William Wells, The Black Man: his antecedents, his genius and his achievements (Boston: James Redpath, 1863)
Brown, William Wells, Sketches of Places and People Abroad (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1855)
Carlyle, Thomas, ‘Occasional discourse on the Nigger question’, first published in Fraser's Magazine as ‘Occasional discourse on the Negro question’ (December 1849); Latter-Day Pamphlets (London: 1853)
Coleman, John, Fifty Years of an Actor's Life (London: Hutchinson, 1904)
Colman, George, the Younger, Random Records (London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830), 2 vols.
‘Contemporary literature of America’, Westminster Review (January 1853), 287–302
‘A Critique on the Performance of Othello by F. W. Keene Aldridge, the African Roscius’ by the author of ‘The talents of Edmund Kean delineated’ … (Scarborough: John Cole, 1831)
Douglass, Frederick, The Frederick Douglass Papers, series one, Speeches, Debates and Interviews, Volume 1, 1841–6, ed. Blassingame, J. W. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979)
Fitzball, E., Thirty-five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life (London: T. C. Newby, 1859), 2 vols.
Genest, John, Some Account of the English Stage from the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 (Bath: Carrington, 1832), 10 vols.
Hazlitt, William, The Complete Works of William Hazlitt in Twenty-one Volumes, ed. Howe, P., Volume 5, Lectures on the English Poets and A View of the English Stage; Volume 18, Art and Dramatic Criticism (London: J. M. Dent, 1930)
Hughes, Henry, Treatise on Sociology, theoretical and practical (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Crambo and Co., 1854)
The Humorous Adventures of Jump Jim Crow (Glasgow, n.d.)
Hutton, Laurence, Curiosities of the American Stage (London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1891)
Jim Crow's Vagaries, or Black Flights of Fancy: containing a choice collection of Nigger melodies … (London: Orlando Hodgson, [1860])
Kames, Henry, Sketches of the History of Man (Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1774)
Kemble, Fanny, Journal of a Residence on a Georgia Plantation in 1838–1839, ed. Scott, John A. (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1961, first publ. 1863)
Kendal, Madge, Dame Madge Kendal by Herself (London: John Murray, 1933)
Knox, Robert, The Races of Men: a philosophical enquiry into the influence of race over the destinies of nations (London: Henry Renshaw, 1862, first publ. 1850)
Mackay, Charles, Through the Long Day: memorials of a literary life during half a century (London: W. H. Allen, 1887)
Marryat, Frederick, Mr Midshipman Easy (London: Everyman, 1970, first publ. 1836)
[Mathews, Charles], The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews … by Mrs Mathews. Abridged and condensed by Yates, Edmund (London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, 1860)
[Mathews, Charles], The London Mathews, containing an account of this celebrated comedian's trip to America … (London: Hodgson, n.d.)
[Mathews, Charles], Sketches of Mr. Mathews' celebrated trip to America … (London: J. Limbird, 1825)
Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge: the African Roscius (London: J. Onwhyn, [1848])
Moore, G. W. [The Christy Minstrel], ‘Bones’ his Anecdotes and Goaks (sic) (London: C. H. Clarke, [1870])
Moseley, Benjamin A., A Treatise on Sugar, with Miscellaneous Medical Observations (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799)
Oulton, W. C., A History of the Theatres of London … in three volumes (London: Chapple, Simpkin and Marshall, 1818)
Rede, Leman T., The Road to the Stage … (London: J. Onwhyn, 1836)
Reynolds, Harry, Minstrel Memories: the story of burnt cork minstrelsy in Great Britain from 1836 to 1927 (London: Alston Rivers, 1928)
Sheahan, J. J., Notes and Queries, fourth series, 10 (17 August 1872), 133
Smith, Richard John [O], A Collection of Materiel [sic] Towards an History of the English Stage (London: The Author [1825]), 25 vols.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Dred: a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, ed. and intro. Newman, Judie (Halifax: Ryburn, 1992, first publ. 1856)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Uncle Tom's Cabin, ed. Yellin, Jean Fagan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, first publ. 1852)
'Uncle Sam's peculiarities. American niggers. – Hudson River steam-boat dialogues, Bentley's Miscellany 6 (1839), pp. 262–71
Wemyss, F. C., Wemyss' Chronology of the American Stage from 1752 to 1852 (New York: Wm. Taylor and Co., 1852)
Wemyss, F. C., Theatrical Biography (Glasgow: R. Griffin, 1848)
JOURNALSActors by Daylight or Pencilings in the Pit
Actors by Gaslight; or, ‘Boz’ in the Boxes
Athenaeum
Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper
The Drama or Theatrical Pocket Magazine
Era
The Examiner
Figaro in London
The Idler and Breakfast Table Companion
John Bull
Literary Panorama
London Magazine and Monthly Critical and Dramatic Review
The Mirror of the Stage, or New Dramatic Censor
New Monthly Magazine
Notes and Queries
Oxberry's Dramatic Biography and Histrionic Anecdotes
The Satirist or, The True Censor of the Times
The Stage; or Theatrical Inquisitor
Theatrical Journal
SECONDARY MATERIAL – BOOKSAndrews, Cyril Bruyn, ‘Victorian Ebony: the diaries, letters and criticisms of Ira Aldridge’ (unpublished ms.)
Anstey, Roger, and Hair, P. E. H. (eds.), Liverpool: the African Slave Trade and Abolition: essays to illustrate current knowledge and research (Liverpool: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, occasional series, vol. 2, 1989)
Bagster-Collins, Jeremy, George Colman the Younger, 1762–1836 (New York: King's Crown Press, 1946)
Barthelemy, A. G., Black Face, Maligned Race: the representation of blacks in English drama from Shakespeare to Southerne (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987)
Bean, A., Hatch, J. V., and Macnamara, B. (eds.), Inside the Minstrel Mask: readings in nineteenth-century blackface minstrelsy (Hanover and London: Wesleyan University Press, 1996)
Birdoff, Harry, The World's Greatest Hit – Uncle Tom's Cabin (New York: S. F. Vanni, 1947)
Blackburn, Robin, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776–1848 (London: Verso, 1988)
Blackett, R. J. M., Building an Antislavery Wall: black Americans in the Atlantic abolitionist movement, 1830–1860 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989, first publ. 1983)
Bolster, W. Jeffrey, Black Jacks: African American seamen in the age of sail (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997)
Bolt, Christine, Victorian Attitudes to Race (London: Routledge, 1971)
Bolt, Christine, and Drescher, Seymour (eds.) Anti-Slavery, Religion and Reform: essays in honour of Roger Anstey (London: Dawson, 1980)
Bolton, H. P., Dickens Dramatized (London: Mansell, 1987)
Booth, Michael, English Melodrama (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1965)
Booth, Michael, Theatre in the Victorian Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Bratton, J. S. (ed.), Music Hall Performance and Style (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986)
Bratton, J. S. et al., Acts of Supremacy: the British empire and the stage (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991)
Briggs, Asa, The Age of Improvement, 1783–1867 (London: Longman, 1991)
Broadbent, R. J., Annals of the Liverpool Stage from the Earliest Period to the Present Time (Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1908)
Brody, Jennifer DeVere, Impossible Purities: blackness, femininity and Victorian culture (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998)
Brooks, Peter, The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, first publ. 1976)
Cockrell, Dale, Demons of Disorder: early blackface minstrels and their world (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Craton, Michael, Testing the Chains: resistance to slavery in the British West Indies (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982)
Curtin, Philip D., The Atlantic Slave Trade: a census (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1959)
Curtin, Philip D., The Image of Africa: British ideas and action, 1750–1850 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964)
Curtin, Philip D. (ed.), Imperialism (London: Macmillan, 1971)
Davidson, Basil, The African Slave Trade (Boston: Little Brown, 1980)
Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, first publ. 1975)
Davis, David Brion, The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, first publ. 1967)
Davis, Jim, and Emeljanow, Victor, Reflecting the Audience: London theatregoing, 1840–1880 (Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001)
Dennison, Sam, Scandalize my Name: Black imagery in American popular music (New York: Garland Publishing, 1982)
Dessau, Alan C., Titus Andronicus (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989)
Disher, Maurice Willson, Blood and Thunder (London: Frederick Muller, 1949)
Dodds, J. W., Thomas Southerne, Dramatist (New Haven and London: Humphrey Milford, 1933)
Donohue, Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge History of the British Theatre, Volume 2, 1660–1895 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Donohue, Joseph, Theatre in the Age of Kean (Oxford: Blackwell, 1975)
Drescher, Seymour, Capitalism and Antislavery: British mobilization in comparative perspective (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1986)
Foner, Philip, Frederick Douglass: a biography (New York: Citadel Press, 1964)
Fredrickson, George M., The Black Image in the White Mind: the debate on Afro-American character and destiny, 1817–1914 (New York: Harper and Row, 1971)
Fryer, Peter, Staying Power: the history of black people in Britain (London: Pluto, 1984)
Gerzina, Gretchen, Black England: life before emancipation (London: John Murray, 1995)
Grant, Joanne (ed.), Black Protest: history, documents and analyses, 1619 to the present (New York: Fawcett, 1968)
Gratus, Jack, The Great White Lie: slavery, emancipation and changing racial attitudes (London: Hutchinson, 1973)
Hall, Catherine, Civilising Subjects: metropole and colony in the English imagination, 1830–1867 (Cambridge: Polity, 2002)
Harding, Vincent, There is a River: the black struggle for freedom in America (New York: Vintage Books, 1983)
Harney, Maurice, Titus Andronicus (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990)
Hartman, Saidiya V., Scenes of Subjection: terror, slavery, and self-making in nineteenth-century America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Hays, M., and Nikolopolou, A. (eds.), Melodrama: the cultural emergence of a genre (London: Macmillan, 1998)
Henriques, Fernando, Children of Caliban: miscegenation (London: Secker and Warburg, 1974)
Hill, Errol, Shakespeare in Sable: a history of black Shakespearean actors (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984)
The History of ‘The Times’: the Thunderer in the making, 1785–1841 (London: The Times, 1935)
Hochschild, Adam, Bury the Chains: the British struggle to abolish slavery (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2005)
Howell, R. C., The Royal Navy and the Slave Trade (London: Croom Helm, 1987)
Inikori, Joseph, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: a study in international trade and economic development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Jackson, Russell (ed.), Victorian Theatre (London: A. & C. Black, 1989)
Jordan, Winthrop, White Over Black: American attitudes toward the Negro, 1550–1812 (Baltimore: Penguin, 1969)
Kiernan, V. G., The Lords of Human Kind: European attitudes to the outside world in the imperial age (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969)
Knight, William G., A Major London ‘Minor’: the Surrey theatre, 1805–1865 (London: Society for Theatre Research, 1997)
Lhamon, W. T., Raising Cain: blackface performance from Jim Crow to hip hop (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998)
Lively, Adam, Masks: blackness, race and the imagination (London: Chatto and Windus, 1998)
Lloyd, Christopher, The Navy and the Slave Trade: the suppression of the African slave trade in the nineteenth century (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1949)
Lorimer, Douglas, Colour, Class and the Victorians: English attitudes to the Negro in the mid-nineteenth century (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1978)
Lott, Eric, Love and Theft: blackface minstrelsy and the American working class (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
MacKenzie, John M. (ed.), Imperialism and Popular Culture (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986)
Marshall, Herbert, and Stock, Mildred, Ira Aldridge: the Negro tragedian (London: Rockliff, 1958; rpt. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1993, with introduction by Errol Hill)
Martin, Waldo E. Jr, The Mind of Frederick Douglass (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984)
Mencke, John G., Mulattoes and Race Mixture: American attitudes and images, 1865–1918 ([Ann Arbor]: UMI Research Press, 1979)
Moody, Jane, Illegitimate Theatre in London, 1770–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
Mortimer, Owen, Speak of Me as I Am: the story of Ira Aldridge (Wangaratta, Australia: The Author, 1995)
Mullin, D., Victorian Plays: a record of significant productions on the London stage, 1837–1901 (New York: Greenwood, 1987)
Nicoll, Allardyce, A History of English Drama, 1660–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955–9), vols. 4 and 5
Oldfield, J. R., Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: the mobilisation of public opinion against the slave trade, 1787–1807 (London: Frank Cass, 1998)
Ostendorf, Berndt, Black Literature in White America (Brighton: Harvester, 1982)
Ragatz, Lowell Joseph, The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean, 1763–1833: a study in social and economic history (New York and London: Century, for American Historical Association, 1928)
Robinson, Cedric, Black Marxism: the making of the black radical tradition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000, first publ. 1983)
Rodney, Walter, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (London: Bogle-L'Ouverture, 1972)
Root, R. L., Thomas Southerne (Boston: Twayne, 1981)
Rosenberg, Marvin, The Masks of Othello (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1961)
Saxton, Alexander, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: class politics and mass culture in nineteenth-century America (London: Verso, 1990)
Schama, Simon, Rough Crossings: Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution (London: BBC Books, 2005)
Scobie, Edward, Black Britannia: a history of blacks in Britain (London: Pall Mall Press, 1972)
Semmel, Bernard, The Governor Eyre Controversy (London: Macgibbon and Kee, 1962)
Shyllon, F. O., Black People in Britain, 1555–1833 (London: Oxford University Press for Institute of Race Relations, 1977)
Sillard, R. M., Barry Sullivan and his Contemporaries: a histrionic record (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1901)
Sivanandan, A., Communities of Resistance: writings on black struggles for socialism (London: Verso, 1990)
Southern, Eileen, The Music of Black Americans: a history (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983)
Sprague, Arthur Colby, Shakespearean Players and Performances (London: A.&C. Black, 1954)
Stearns, Marshall, and Stearns, Jean, Jazz Dance: the story of American vernacular dance (New York: Macmillan, 1968)
Stepan, Nancy, The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1800–1960 (London: Macmillan, 1982)
Stephen, L., and Lee, S. (eds), Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1921–22)
Swindells, Julia, Glorious Causes: the grand theatre of political change, 1789–1833 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Sypher, Wylie, Guinea's Captive Kings: British anti-slavery literature of the XVIIIth century (New York: Octagon Books, 1969, first publ. 1942)
Tasch, Peter A., The Dramatic Cobbler: the life and works of Isaac Bickerstaff (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1971)
Temperley, Howard, British Anti-Slavery, 1833–1870 (London: Longman, 1972)
Toll, R. C., Blacking Up: the minstrel show in nineteenth-century America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1974)
Turley, David, The Culture of English Anti-Slavery, 1780–1860 (London: Routledge, 1991)
Walvin, James, Black and White: the Negro and English society 1555–1945 (London: Allen Lane, 1973)
Ward, W. E. F., The Royal Navy and the Slavers: the suppression of the African slave trade (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1969)
Wheeler, Roxann, The Complexion of Race: categories of difference in eighteenth-century British culture (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000)
White, Shane, Stories of Freedom in Black New York (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002)
Williams, Eric, British Historians and the West Indies (London: Deutsch, 1966)
Williams, Eric, Capitalism and Slavery (London: Deutsch, 1964)
Winter, William, Shakespeare on the Stage (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1911)
Wiseman, S. J., Aphra Behn (Plymouth: Northcote, 1996)
SECONDARY MATERIAL – ARTICLES AND CHAPTERSBlair, Walter, ‘Charles Mathews and his “A Trip to America”’, Prospects 2 (1976), pp. 1–24
Booth, Michael R., ‘East End and West End: class and audience in Victorian London’, Theatre Research International 2:2 (1977), pp. 98–103
Bratton, J. S., ‘British heroism and the structure of melodrama’, in Bratton et al., Acts of Supremacy, pp. 18–61
Bratton, J. S., ‘English Ethiopians: British audiences and black-face acts, 1835–1865’, Yearbook of English Studies 11 (1981), pp. 127–42
Carew, Jan, ‘The end of Moorish enlightenment and the beginning of the Columbian era’, Race & Class 33:3 (1992), pp. 3–16
Carlisle, Carol Jones, ‘The nineteenth-century actors versus the closet critics of Shakespeare’, Studies in Philology 51:4 (October 1954), pp. 599–625
Cowhig, Ruth, ‘Actors, black and tawny, in the role of Othello – and their critics’, Theatre Research International 4:2 (1979), pp. 133–46
Cox, Clinton, ‘From Columbus to Hitler and back again’, Race & Class 43:3 (2002), pp. 39–49
Davidson, Basil, ‘Columbus: the bones and blood of racism’, Race & Class 33:3 (1992), pp. 17–26
Donohue, Joseph, ‘The theatre from 1800–1895’, in Donohue, (ed.) Cambridge History of the British Theatre
Dormon, James H., ‘The strange career of Jim Crow Rice’, Journal of Social History 3:2 (1970), pp. 109–22
Eaton, Walter Prichard, ‘Dramatic evolution and popular theatre: playhouse roots of our drama’, American Scholar 4:2 (1935), pp. 148–59
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