Plays by Dion Boucicault

Name: Plays by Dion Boucicault
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521283953
Price: 5700 KES
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ISBN: 9780521283953

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series British and American Playwrights

ISBN-10 0521283957

ISBN-13 9780521283953

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 6th, 1984

Print length 252 Pages

Weight 380 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 1.50 cms

Product Classification: Biography, Literature and Literary studies Literature & literary studies

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Dion Boucicault, the most popular dramatist of the second half of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific and representative. Irish in origin, he worked and wrote in England and America where for twenty years he led the touring circuit.

Five plays by this virtuoso of the theatre have been gathered in one volume and given scholarly attention. Dion Boucicault, the most popular dramatist of the second half of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific and representative. Irish in origin, he worked and wrote in England and America where for twenty years he led the touring circuit. His plays reflect the different theatrical traditions, Irish, English and American, in which he was a crucial figure. Two plays are published here for the first time this century, Used Up and Jessie Brown. The Shaughraun and The Octoroon are outstanding examples of melodrama; Old Heads and Young Hearts is one of the few notable nineteenth-century comedies. Peter Thomson's introduction assesses Boucicault's place in the nineteenth century in both England and America, and shows that his work cannot be ignored by any serious student of drama.

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