Saving The Octoroon
Title
Saving The Octoroon
Date
December 21, 1861
Description
Once Dion Boucicault had changed the ending of his famous play, The Octoroon, British satiric periodical, Punch, published a thirteen-stanza parodic poem, "Saving the Octoroon," ("Saving The Octoroon." Punch, or the London Charivari, 21 Dec. 1861, p. 252) that lampooned both the motivation and effect of Boucicault's revision.
Publisher
Punch