Boucicault Dion Edited by Peter Thomson (2 results)

Paperback. xi, 238p., introduction, biographical record, note on the texts, plays, appendixes, list of plays by Boucicault, bibliography, illustrations, very good first edition stated trade paperback in wraps. British & American Playwrights Series, Martin Banham & Peter Thomson, general editors. Irish American playwright Boucicault got his start at Guinness brewery after a teenage affair with his cousin Arthur Lee Guinness. Includes his famous anti-slavey play "The Octoroon" from 1859. …

(1984). First edition, first printing: Paperbound issue. Mild age-toning, bump to the crown of the spine, else near fine in pictorial glossy wraps. Octavo. 238 pages; appendices, and bibliography. This is the first time that five plays by this virtuoso of the theatre have been gathered in one volume and given scholarly attention. His plays reflect the different theatrical traditions, Irish, English and American, in which he was a crucial figure.…