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ILLUSTR ATIONS DOYLE Figure 1. The Copeland Opera House (ca. 1900). {} Figure 2. A home-talent production at the opera house (ca. 1908). {} Figure 3. A high school production of The Merchant of Venice (ca. 1906). {} KIPPOLA Figure 1. “Genial” John McCullough. {} Figure 2. McCullough as Coriolanus. {} Figure 3. McCullough as King Lear. {} VEY Table 1. The ¤ve components of Zoyara’s imitators. {} Figure 1. Full-length picture of Zoyara in white dress with a whip. {} Figure 2. “Ella Zoyara” obituary photograph in the New York Clipper (1879). {} Figure 3. “Eugene” in white dress. {} Figure 4. “Eugene” in male attire, Houseworth’s Celebrities, San Francisco. {} REED Figure 1. Lithograph “Red-Set Girls, and Jack-in-the-Green,” from Sketches of Character (1837). {} Figure 2. Lithograph “Koo, Koo, or Actor Boy,” from Sketches of Character (1837). {} { ix } Figure 3. Lithograph “Jaw-Bone, or House John Canoe,” from Sketches of Character (1837). {} Figure 4. “Joseph Johnson” etching from Vagabondiana (1817). {} McMAHON Figure 1. Actors from the theatre group Dionísios perform a jazz number in Um suco natural. {} Figure 2. Ermelinda Delgado moves ®uently from Cape Verdean batuque dancing to ballet in Um suco natural. {} Figure 3. Elmidou Lopes portrays a TV announcer reciting statistics about the AIDS epidemic. {} Figure 4. Actors from the theatre group Burbur dance a coladeira in O intruso, Oporto, Portugal. {} Figure 5. Flávio Hamilton, Djô Évora, and Adorado Mara pose as early-twentieth-century Cape Verdean marinheiros (sailors) in O intruso. {} Figure 6. Odete Môsso plays a troubled widow while Flávio Hamilton plays her unsympathetic mother-in-law in O intruso. {} Figure 7. Flávio Hamilton narrates Gabriel Mariano’s classic short story, “O intruso,” in Burbur’s theatrical adaptation. {} ILLUSTR ATIONS { x } ...

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