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The Octoroon<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Broadview Press<\/a>
\n2014-05-16 (orignially published in 1859)
\n136 pages
\nPaperback \/ PDF \/ ePub
\nISBN: 9781554812110 \/ 1554812119<\/p>\n

Dion Boucicault<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Sarika Bose<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer of English
\nUniversity of British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n

Joseph Black<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of English
\nUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/em><\/p>\n

et al.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Regarded by Bernard Shaw<\/a> 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\u2014though 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<\/em> was produced as a BBC Radio play in 2012, director and playwright Mark Ravenhill<\/a> described Boucicault’s dramas as “the precursors to Hollywood cinema.”<\/p>\n

In The Octoroon<\/em>\u2014the most controversial play of his career\u2014Boucicault addresses the sensitive topic of race and slavery. George Peyton inherits a plantation, and falls in love with an octoroon<\/a>\u2014a person one-eighth African American, and thus, in 1859 Louisiana, legally a slave. The Octoroon<\/em> opened in 1859 in New York City, just two years prior to the American Civil War<\/a>, and created a sensation\u2014as it did in its subsequent British production.<\/p>\n

This new edition includes a wide range of background contextual materials, an informative introduction, and extensive annotation.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n