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The Octoroon (Paperback)
Dion Bouciacult; Edited by Sarika Bose
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R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
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Regarded by Bernard Shaw as a master of the theatre, Dion
Boucicault was arguably the most important figure in drama in North
America and in Britain during the second half of the nineteenth
century. He was largely forgotten during the twentieth
century-though he continued to influence popular culture (the
iconic image of a woman tied to railway tracks as a train rushes
towards her, for example, originates in a Boucicault melodrama). In
the twenty-first century the gripping nature of his plays is being
discovered afresh; when The Octoroon was produced as a BBC Radio
play in 2012, director and playwright Mark Ravenhill described
Boucicault's dramas as ""the precursors to Hollywood cinema."" In
The Octoroon-the most controversial play of his career-Boucicault
addresses the sensitive topic of race and slavery. George Peyton
inherits a plantation and falls in love with an octoroon-a person
one-eighth African American, and thus, in 1859 Louisiana, legally a
slave. The Octoroon opened in 1859 in New York City, just two years
prior to the American Civil War, and created a sensation-as it did
in its subsequent British production. This new edition includes a
wide range of background contextual materials, an informative
introduction and extensive annotation.
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