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The Octoroon opened at a particularly charged time in US and New York City history. The timing of the New...
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Late on the night of October 16, 1859, John Brown and twenty-one armed followers stole into the town of Harper’s...
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The Octoroon opened in London on November 18, 1861 (though with understudy to Robertson in the role of Zoe Peyton...
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In 1858, shortly before The Octoroon was written, Australian legislator William Hull asserted to a Select Committee of the Legislative...
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The Octoroon was performed on the colonial stages of Australia a full ten months before it was staged in London.
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This playbill from Royal Queen's Theatre and Opera House Edinburgh, February 26 and 27, 1862, is just a couple of...
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Nominally the youngest son of Samuel Boursiquot, it is likely that Dion Boucicault was the biological son of family friend...
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Boucicault, while in France, met and married wealthy French widow, Anne Guiot, who died of a fall in the Alps...
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Boucicault’s play, “The Vampire” at Princess’s Theatre, London, 19 year-old actress Agnes Robertson starred, met Dion Boucicault who appeared also...
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Dion Boucicault left Britain and headed to the United States. He travelled first to New York, following Agnes Robertson who...
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