Susan Valladares is Associate Professor in Drama post–1660 at Durham University. She is the author of Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807–1815 (2015).

‘Susan Valladares’s Stock Pieces directs attention to the British repertoire and how it was sustained and recreated amidst the shifting tides of social concern about the "nation’s political, financial, and affective investments in the slave trade". Directing attention to a continuum of dramatic performances and intertheatrical associations that stretch from The Padlock to the Afro-Jamaican Actor Boy tradition, Valladares helps us better understand how the theatre extended and reconfigured cultural memories entangled in its repertoire of stock performances.’ Dana Van Kooy, Associate Professor of Transnational Literature, Literary Theory and Culture, Michigan Technological University

• IntroductionThe Making of a Stock Piece: The Padlock (1768) Stock (Re)Valuations: Beaumont and Fletcher on the Romantic-Period Stage A ‘Pantomimetized’ Repertoire: George Barnwell vs Harlequin Stock Pieces Re-made: The Jamaican Actor Boy Tradition Conclusion

Susan Valladares is Associate Professor in Drama post–1660 at Durham University. She is the author of Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807–1815 (2015).

‘Susan Valladares’s Stock Pieces directs attention to the British repertoire and how it was sustained and recreated amidst the shifting tides of social concern about the "nation’s political, financial, and affective investments in the slave trade". Directing attention to a continuum of dramatic performances and intertheatrical associations that stretch from The Padlock to the Afro-Jamaican Actor Boy tradition, Valladares helps us better understand how the theatre extended and reconfigured cultural memories entangled in its repertoire of stock performances.’ Dana Van Kooy, Associate Professor of Transnational Literature, Literary Theory and Culture, Michigan Technological University

• IntroductionThe Making of a Stock Piece: The Padlock (1768) Stock (Re)Valuations: Beaumont and Fletcher on the Romantic-Period Stage A ‘Pantomimetized’ Repertoire: George Barnwell vs Harlequin Stock Pieces Re-made: The Jamaican Actor Boy Tradition Conclusion

Susan Valladares is Associate Professor in Drama post–1660 at Durham University. She is the author of Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807–1815 (2015).

‘Susan Valladares’s Stock Pieces directs attention to the British repertoire and how it was sustained and recreated amidst the shifting tides of social concern about the "nation’s political, financial, and affective investments in the slave trade". Directing attention to a continuum of dramatic performances and intertheatrical associations that stretch from The Padlock to the Afro-Jamaican Actor Boy tradition, Valladares helps us better understand how the theatre extended and reconfigured cultural memories entangled in its repertoire of stock performances.’ Dana Van Kooy, Associate Professor of Transnational Literature, Literary Theory and Culture, Michigan Technological University

• IntroductionThe Making of a Stock Piece: The Padlock (1768) Stock (Re)Valuations: Beaumont and Fletcher on the Romantic-Period Stage A ‘Pantomimetized’ Repertoire: George Barnwell vs Harlequin Stock Pieces Re-made: The Jamaican Actor Boy Tradition Conclusion