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"This Life Is a Stage": Performing the South in William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter1
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Southern Quarterly
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April 1, 2008
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Towards the end of William Wells Brown's novel, Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine (1867), the narrator makes the rather Shakespearean comment that "This life is a stage, and we are indeed all actors."2 Thus, concludes the portion of the novel in which, Clotelle, a beautiful, young biracial woman escapes from slavery, marries a dashing French military officer, and travels with him to India as his much adored and admired wife. This remark nicely describes the way in which Clotelle plays different social roles depending on her social standing, but I think it also has significant bearing upon many of William Wells Brown's other works, including his first and more well-known version of Clotelle, ...
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