World of Books - Find your book here

Plays by Dion Boucicault

Dion Boucicault

Dion Boucicault, the most popular dramatist of the second half of the nineteenth century, was also one of the most prolific and representative.

Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault

Dion Boucicault

The selection of his work in this volume stresses Boucicault's consummate craft as a writer for the theatre in the age of actor-managers and melodrama.

Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage

Deirdre McFeely

The first full critical study of Dion Boucicault, one of the most dynamic and influential figures in nineteenth-century theatre.

Dion Boucicault, the Shaughraun: Three Early Potboilers

Dion Boucicault

Arrah Na Pogue

Dion Boucicault

This edition features an introduction by leading Boucicault scholar Dr Scott Boltwood.

The Literature of Ireland: Culture and Criticism

Terence Brown

19 in her doctoral thesis 'dion Boucicault's irish Melodramas; national identity, Politics and the Press' (Trinity College, dublin, 2007), deirdre Mcfeely has shown how Boucicault's use of a version of this ballad in his play Arrah-na Pogue gave it ...

Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History ...

Preview

For more information on Boucicault's relationship to the Irish immigrant population in New York City, see Deirdre McFeely's Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 14–21. 26. Political parties ...

Dion Boucicault

Preview

The Phantom

Dion Boucicault

Grimaldi: Or, The Life of an Actress

Dion Boucicault

The Willow Copse: A Drama. In Five Acts

Dion Boucicault

Dion Boucicault's Irish Melodramas: National Identity, ...

Deirdre McFeely

Dion Boucicault, the Shaughraun: a documentary life, letters ...

Sven Eric Molin

The Octoroon: The Broadview Anthology of British Literature ...

Dion Boucicault

This new edition includes a wide range of background contextual materials, an informative introduction, and extensive annotation.

Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture

Sarah N. Roth

... was skilled at incorporating contemporary issues into popular dramas. The Octoroon opened four days after John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers' Ferry. Deirdre McFeely, Dion Boucicault (New York: Cambridge University Press, ...

Irish Theater in America: Essays on Irish Theatrical Diaspora

Preview

DEIRDRE McFEELY Although he was born in Dublin in 1820, Dion Boucicault was a naturalized American citizen living in New York City when he wrote what many consider to be his finest Irish play, The Shaitfihraun. The play premiered on ...

Daniel Dion: parcours

Jean Gagnon

"Daniel Dion: Paths" is the catalogue for the exhibit of Dion's video art at the National Gallery of Canada.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Theatre

Preview

1860, quoted in Deirdre McFeely, Dion Boucicault: Irish Identity on Stage ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 13. McFeely makes a persuasive case for the representation of nationalism, race, and class in The Colleen Bawn, ...

Dion Fortune's Book of the Dead

Dion Fortune

This handbook helps the living assist the dying at the time of death.

The Training and Work of an Initiate

Dion Fortune

Dion Fortune reveals both the broad outlines and underlying principles of these systems. Includes a new introduction by Gareth Knight. Index.

Celine Dion No Vinil

George Batista Da Silva

Uma seleção apurada das melhores letras de canções gravadas pela cantora canadense Celine Dion.

The Sea Priestess

Dion Fortune

The Sea Priestess is the highly acclaimed novel in which Dion Fortune introduces her most powerful fictional character, Vivien Le Fay Morgan- a practicing initiate of the Hermetic Path.

Applied Magic

Dion Fortune

Applied Magic is a selection of Dion Fortune's writings on the practical applications of magical and esoteric techniques.

Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for ...

Dion Fortune

After finding herself the subject of a powerful psychic attack in the 1930's, famed British occultist Dion Fortune wrote this detailed instruction manual on protecting oneself from paranormal attack.