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Nick of the Woods; or, the Jibbenainosay
Nick of the Woods; or, the Jibbenainosay (1839), a play by Louisa H. Medina. [New Bowery Theatre,12 perf.] After the Indians have massacred his family, Reginald Ashburn ( Joseph Proctor) adopts the disguise of a pacifist Quaker and travels the wilderness seeking revenge. He becomes known by a number of names, including Bloody Nathan, Nick, and Jibbenainosay, the last meaning an avenging devil. In his wanderings Ashburn is accompanied by Telie Doe ( Mrs. Shaw), a white girl who has been kidnapped and raised by Native Americans and who turns out to be Ashburn's long‐lost cousin. With time he kills numerous Indians, including Wenonga ( H. Lewis), the chief who had engineered the murder of Ashburn's family. But this last battle also costs Nick and Telie Doe their lives. Based on the novel of the same name by Robert M. Bird, the work was often viewed as a corrective to the romantic notions of Native Americans then in vogue. First produced a year earlier at the Old Bowery, it failed to catch on until this revival. It remained popular for several decades. Louisa H. Medina (d. 1838) was an active playwright of the time. Many of her works were dramatizations of contemporary novels, especially those of Bulwer‐Lytton. She was the wife of Thomas S. Hamblin.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Nick of the Woods; or, the Jibbenainosay." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Nick of the Woods; or, the Jibbenainosay." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-NickoftheWoodsorthJbbnnsy.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Nick of the Woods; or, the Jibbenainosay." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-NickoftheWoodsorthJbbnnsy.html |
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Nick of the Woods; Or, The Jibbenainosay
Nick of the Woods; Or, The Jibbenainosay, novel by R.M. Bird, published in 1837. This popular novel opposing the idea of the Indian as a “noble savage” was dramatized by Louisa Medina (1838).
At the end of the Revolution Captain Roland Forrester travels through the Kentucky border wilderness with his beloved Edith, who is captured by Indians during one of their many raids and massacres. The only man who will not fight is the Quaker derisively called Bloody Nathan, an unctuous hypocrite who is really Nick of the Woods, the Jibbenainosay, or devil, feared by the Indians because he brutally kills them to avenge their murder of his family. When he finds Wenonga, a Shawnee chief, was the sole killer of his family, Nick, disguised as an Indian, slays him with a tomahawk and disappears, to haunt the forests no more. George Rogers Clark saves Roland and Edith from the stake. |
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Nick of the Woods; Or, The Jibbenainosay." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Nick of the Woods; Or, The Jibbenainosay." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-NickoftheWoodsOrThJbbnnsy.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Nick of the Woods; Or, The Jibbenainosay." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-NickoftheWoodsOrThJbbnnsy.html |
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