Octoroon
This playbill, held at the University of Canterbury Kent’s Templeman Library, from the Theatre Royal Sheffield, advertises “positivity the last...
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The Playbill for the Theatre Royal, Birmingham advertises a performance of The Octoroon for Thursday December 14, 1865. This playbill...
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American actor Joseph Jefferson III, played the character Salem Scudder in the original American production when the play opened in...
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On the evening of April 14, 1865, at a special performance of the comedy, Our American Cousin, by English playwright...
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Once Dion Boucicault had changed the ending of his famous play, The Octoroon, British satiric periodical, Punch, published a thirteen-stanza...
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The ERA 14 November 1858 reported on the opening of the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton in their edition saying: ' Whatever...
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Once had Boucicault adapted the play for London audiences that ended with the promise of George and Zoe united in...
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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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