Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault

Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault
Title Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault PDF eBook
Author Dion Boucicault
Publisher CUA Press
Pages 420
Release 1987
Genre Drama
ISBN 9780813206172

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The selection of Boucicault's work in this volume stresses his consummate craft as a writer for the theatre in the age of actor-managers and melodrama. It also reminds us of that Irish verve, charm and adroitness which made him the best playwright of his generation in England and America as well as Ireland. Arguably the father of both the Irish and American drama, his characteristic plotting and taste for sensation suggest that another of his heirs was the early movie industry.

The Octoroon

The Octoroon
Title The Octoroon PDF eBook
Author Dion Boucicault
Publisher Litres
Pages 91
Release 2021-03-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN 5040658508

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Arrah Na Pogue

Arrah Na Pogue
Title Arrah Na Pogue PDF eBook
Author Dion Boucicault
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 92
Release 2010-12-01
Genre Drama
ISBN 1408146614

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Written in 1864 and set during the Irish rebellion of 1798, Arrah na Pogue is is an entertaining tale of romance and misadventure with rascally rebels, despicable villains and love struck youths. As night falls on the Wicklow mountains, the popular but incorrigible rebel Beamish MacCaul is lying in wait. He's out to ambush the cowardly rent-collector Michael Feeny and relieve him of a 'big lump of money.' That done, he's off to marry Fanny Power. Down in the valley, love is in the air for Shaun the Post and our heroine Arrah Meelish too. But Arrah has a secret. And Michael Feeny's found out. As Shaun and Arrah celebrate their wedding, revenge comes a-calling. Love must conquer all - including the hangman's noose. The play is full of Boucicault's trademark comic roguery, farce and melodrama, which has influenced Irish playwrights including Synge, O'Casey, Shaw and McDonagh. This edition features an introduction by leading Boucicault scholar Dr Scott Boltwood.

The Shaughraun

The Shaughraun
Title The Shaughraun PDF eBook
Author Dion Boucicault
Publisher Alpha Edition
Pages 30
Release 2020-08-17
Genre History
ISBN 9789354049613

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Dion Boucicault

Dion Boucicault
Title Dion Boucicault PDF eBook
Author Deirdre McFeely
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 229
Release 2012-04-12
Genre Drama
ISBN 1107378257

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Deirdre McFeely presents the first book-length critical study of Dion Boucicault, placing his Irish plays in the context of his overall career. The book undertakes a detailed examination of the reception of the plays in the New York-London-Dublin theatre triangle which Boucicault inhabited. Interpreting theatre history as a sociocultural phenomenon that closely approximates social history, McFeely examines the different social and political worlds in which the plays were produced, demonstrating that the complex politics of reception of the plays cannot be separated from the social and political implications of colonialism at that time. The study argues for a shift in focus from the politics of the plays, and their author, to the politics of the auditorium and the press, or the politics of reception. It is within that complex and shifting field of stage, theatre and public media that Boucicault's performance as playwright, actor and publicist is interpreted.

An Octoroon

An Octoroon
Title An Octoroon PDF eBook
Author Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publisher Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Pages 62
Release 2015-05-15
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 082223226X

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Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.

The Colleen Bawn

The Colleen Bawn
Title The Colleen Bawn PDF eBook
Author Dion Boucicault
Publisher BoD – Books on Demand
Pages 70
Release 2020-08-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3752403829

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Reproduction of the original: The Colleen Bawn by Dion Boucicault