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- Title
Spectacular Remedies to Colonial Conflicts: Tableaux Vivants, Proto-Cinema and Global Performance in Dion Boucicault's Jessie Brown.
- Authors
Smith, Lawrence D.
- Abstract
The story of 'Jessie Brown' emerged within a faux eyewitness account to the socalled Indian Mutiny of 1857. Subsequently elaborated and distributed via a 'global republic of performance' (including journalism, ballad poetry, musical compositions, dioramas, exhibitions and stage spectacles), Jessie Brown exposed class- and ethnic-based dissonances within the British imperialist project. The culmination of this process was the elaborate 'contemporaneous drama' Jessie Brown; or, The Relief of Lucknow (1858), by Dion Boucicault. Due to ongoing developments in a real-world colonial conflict, Boucicault employed melodramatic elements non-formulaically, including a sonically enhanced, proto-cinematic tableau vivant in lieu of a conventional dramatic resolution. This article augments the study of nineteenth-century literature by developing a 'global republic of performance' model used to analyse and account for the Jessie Brown phenomenon in its various media elaborations.
- Subjects
SEPOY Rebellion, India, 1857-1858; PERFORMING arts -- History; JESSIE Brown: Or, the Relief of Lucknow (Theatrical production); BOUCICAULT, Dion, 1820-1890; TABLEAUX (Art); ART exhibitions
- Publication
Nineteenth Century Theatre & Film, 2014, Vol 41, Issue 2, p29
- ISSN
1748-3727
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/NCTF.41.2.3