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Tag: Dion Boucicault
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Old Times There Are Not Forgotten The New York Times 2014-05-04 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic ‘An Octoroon,’ a Slave-Era Tale at Soho Rep Some people are paralyzed by self-consciousness. The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is inspired, energized and perhaps even set free by it. You could say that he transforms self-consciousness into art, except then…
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The Octoroon: A Tragic Mulatto Enslaved by 1 Drop The Root 2014-09-09 Image of the Week: A sculpture addresses the ramifications for those who were mixed-race. John Bell, The Octoroon, 1868. Marble, 159.6 cm high. Town Hall, Blackburn, U.K. This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with…
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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.
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“The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain”: Race, Miscegenation, and the Victorian Staging of Irishness Victorian Literature and Culture Volume 29, Number 2 (September 2001) pages 383–396 Scott Boltwood, Associate Professor of English Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia THROUGHOUT THE NINETEENTH CENTURY both the English popular and scientific communities increasingly argued for a distinct racial difference…
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“May she read liberty in your eyes?” Beecher, Boucicault and the Representation and Display of Antebellum Women’s Racially Indeterminate Bodies Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2012 pages. 127-144 DOI: 10.1353/dtc.2012.0007 Lisa Merrill, Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, Performance Studies Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Prelude In 1856 Reverend Henry…
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The Octoroon The Georgetown Theatre Company North, South, Race & Class: A Staged Reading Series of 19th century Plays at Grace Church 1041 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Wednesday, 2012-02-29, 19:30 EST (Local Time) The Octoroon (by Dion Boucicault) was one of the biggest hits of mid-19th century American theatre. It is the story of…
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Boucicault’s misdirections: Race, transatlantic theatre and social position in The Octoroon Atlantic Studies Volume 6, Number 1 (April 2009) pages 81-95 DOI: 10.1080/14788810802696287 Sarah Meer, Lecturer of English Univeristy of Cambridge This article challenges a number of myths the Irish-American melodramatist Dion Boucicault himself created about his play The Octoroon. Boucicault claimed that London theatre…
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The Octoroon and English Opinions of Slavery American Quarterly Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer, 1956) pages 166-170 Nils Erik Enkvist Akademi Abo, Finland After his great successes, and notably that of Colleen Bawn, Dion Boucicault became something of a leading figure among English-speaking playwrights, while the critics as well as the public eagerly watched his…
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The Octoroon: A Play, In Four Acts First Performed at the Winter Garden Theatre New York, New York December, 1859 Dion Boucicault, ESQ (1820-1890) Text from James A. Cannavino Library, Marist University, Poughkeepsie, New York Characters Original Cast GEORGE PEYTON (Mrs. Peyton’s Nephew, educated in Europe, and just returned home) Mr. A. H. Davenport. JACOB…
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Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative Indiana University Press 2007-12-04 272 pages 30 b&w photos, 6.125 x 9.25 ISBN-13: 978-0-253-34944-6 ISBN: 0-253-34944-3 Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor of English Dartmouth College Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines…