Plays by Dion Boucicault: Used Up, Old Heads & Young Hearts, Jessie Brown, The Octoroon, & The Shaughraun

  • Paperback
  • Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984
By Boucicault, Dion, edited by Peter Thomson
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Paperback. xi, 238p., introduction, biographical record, note on the texts, plays, appendixes, list of plays by Boucicault, bibliography, illustrations, very good first edition stated trade paperback in wraps. British & American Playwrights Series, Martin Banham & Peter Thomson, general editors. Irish American playwright Boucicault got his start at Guinness brewery after a teenage affair with his cousin Arthur Lee Guinness. Includes his famous anti-slavey play "The Octoroon" from 1859.

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Plays by Dion Boucicault: Used Up, Old Heads & Young Hearts, Jessie Brown, The Octoroon, & The Shaughraun

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Boucicault, Dion, edited by Peter Thomson

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Paperback

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Cambridge University Press: Cambridge

Date

1984


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