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- Title
William Wycherley's The Gentleman Dancing-Master (1672): The First Black Teacher on the Early Modern Stage?
- Authors
Davies, Orlagh
- Abstract
The article critiques the play "The Gentleman Dancing-Master" by William Wycherley presented in 1672. Topics include a lack of discussion on merchant Don Diego's "Little Blackamoor" in the play, a description of "Little Blackamoor" as the servant that teaches Monsieur de Paris, and questions about representations of slavery and service in early modern English drama raised by "Little Blackamoor" or Pedro/Sanchez.
- Subjects
GENTLEMAN Dancing-Master, The (Theatrical production); WYCHERLEY, William; DRAMA criticism; ENGLISH drama -- History &; criticism; SLAVERY in literature
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2021, Vol 68, Issue 4, p418
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjab173