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Boucicault

(ˈbuːsɪˌkəʊ)
n
(Biography) Dion (ˈdaɪɒn), real name Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot. 1822–90, Irish dramatist and actor. His plays include London Assurance (1841), The Octoroon (1859), and The Shaughran (1874)
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Bou•ci•cault

(ˈbu siˌkɔlt, -ˌkoʊ)

n.
Dion, 1822–90, Irish playwright and actor, in the U.S. after 1853.
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The play was "The Shaughraun," with Dion Boucicault in the title role and Harry Montague and Ada Dyas as the lovers.
Part 3, "Myth, Memory, and Manifestation: The Work of the Public Mind," includes: Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix, "Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon and the Work of Republicanism" (139-55); AnnMarie T.
Yeats, John Millington Synge, Lady Gregory, and Sean O'Casey, as well as the late 19th-century work of Douglas Hyde, Dion Boucicault, Oscar Wilde, and Henrik Ibsen, and the work of George Bernard Shaw.
A TALK is to be given at the Mill Volvo Tyne Theatre in Newcastle about the life of 19th-century Irish playwright Dion Boucicault.
from The Wearing of the Green by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)
His 1876 and 1896 case studies of Dion Boucicault's influence on American theatre offers details of audience responses that can surely help theatre practitioners contributing to the ongoing Boucicault revival in the regional American stage.
Rory O'More was followed by Kalem's first three-reel production, Dion Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn.
In accounts of the development of a national theatre, Dion Boucicault plays a variety of roles.
Irish theatre predates the Irish Literary Theatre of Yeats, Gregory and Martin by at least three centuries and includes a wealth of plays which mirrored and defined Anglo-Irish life, from Irish-born playwright Henry Bumell to the melodramatic exploits of Dion Boucicault.
A high-def broadcast of "London Assurance," a comedy by Dion Boucicault performed at the National Theatre in London, will be shown at 7 p.m.
The first English play to be called a melodrama or "melodrame" was Thomas Holcrofts's A Tale of Mystery (1802), a gothic melodrama; but the two most popular authors of the genre were Douglas Jerrold and Dion Boucicault.
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