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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Drama
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Dublin 1964. Contains The colleen bawn, Arrah-na-Pogue, The
shaughraun.
Thomson, P. (ed). Plays by Dion Boucicault; with an essay by the
editor. Cambridge 1984. Contains Used up, Old heads and young
hearts, Jessie Brown, The octoroon, The shaughraun.
Parkin, A. (ed). Selected plays of Dion Boucicault; with an essay by
the editor. Gerrards Cross 1987. Contains London assurance, The
Corsican brothers, The octoroon, The colleen bawn, The shaughraun,
Robert Emmet.
The Drama on Microfilm series of the Univ of Kent at Canterbury contains 35
plays by Boucicault ( from the Frank Pettingell Collection).
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London assurance. C. (CG 4 Mar 1841). 1841, 1841; Lacy 34; French
500; Dicks 1044; Moses, Boston 1918; ed R. Eyre London 1971; ed J.
L. Smith 1984. Anthologised in Bailey 1966, and Corrigan 1967. See
Parkin, Collections, above.
Used up. C. (H 6 Feb 1844). Webster’s Acting National Drama 15;
Dicks 1047; French’s minor NY; Mod Eng Com Th 5; Kent
microfilm. Authorship disputed by Charles Mathews. See
Thomson, Collections, above.
Old heads and young hearts. C. (H 18 Nov 1844). [1845], [1845];
Webster 138; French’s standard 62; Mod Eng Com Th 3; Kent
microfilm. See Thomson, Collections, above.
Love in a maze. C. (P’cess 6 Mar 1851). 1851.
The Corsican brothers. D. (P’cess 24 Feb 1852). [Lacy 6 is not
Boucicault’s]; Kent microfilm. Anthologised in Booth vol 2 and
Smith 1976. See Parkin, Collections, above.
Andy Blake: or The Irish diamond. C. (Boston 20 Nov 1854). Dicks
556; French 110. From Bayard, Le gamin de Paris.
The poor of New York. D. (Wallack’s New York 8 Dec 1857). French
189; Dicks 381; Kent microfilm. Anthologised in Gerould 1983.
Jessie Brown: or The relief of Lucknow. D. (Wallack’s New York 22
Feb 1858). Lacy 38; French 558; French’s standard 203; Dicks 473;
Kent microfilm. See Thomson, Collections, above.
The octoroon: or Life in Louisiana. D. (Winter Garden New York 6
Dec 1859). Lacy/French 963; Dicks 391; Kent microfilm.
Anthologised in Quinn 1953, Gassner 1967 and Rogers 1979.
Ending revised for performance in England. See Thomson and
Parkin, Collections, above.
The colleen bawn: or The brides of Garryowen. D. (Keene’s New
York 29 Mar 1860). Lacy/French 932; French’s standard 366; Dicks
389; Kent microfilm. Anthologised in Rowell 1953. From Griffin,
The collegians. See Krause and Parkin, Collections, above.
Arragh-na-Pogue: or The Wicklow wedding. D. (Dublin 7 Nov 1864).
French 945; Kent microfilm. See Krause, Collections, above.
Rip Van Winkle. D. (Adel 4 Sep 1865). New York 1895. Anthologised
in Quinn 1953. Anon text reworked with and for Joseph
Jefferson.
The long strike. D. (Lyc 15 Sep 1866). French’s standard 360.
Formosa; or The railroad to ruin. D. (DL 5 Oct 1869). [1869]; Chicago
1869; Kent microfilm.
The rapparee: or The treaty of Limerick. D. (P’cess 9 Sep 1870).
[1870]; Chicago 1870; Kent microfilm.
The shaughraun. D. (Wallack’s New York 14 Nov 1874). Lacy/French
123; Webster; Dicks 390; New York [1885?]; Kent microfilm.
Anthologised in Booth vol 2. See Krause, Thomson and Parkin,
Collections, above.
For other plays, see Fawkes, below, pp. 260–6; Thomson, pp. 228–35; Nicoll
4, pp. 267–70, 573; 5, pp. 267–9, 779.
Ireland’s story. New York 1881.
The art of acting. New York 1926.
Contributions to periodicals
The art of dramatic composition. North Amer Rev 126, Jan 1878.
Parnell and the times. North Amer Rev 144, June 1887.
The debut of a dramatist. North Amer Rev 148, Apr 1889.
The early days of a dramatist. North Amer Rev 148, May 1889.
Leaves from a dramatist’s diary. North Amer Rev 149, Aug 1889.
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Kenney, C. The life and career of Dion Boucicault. New York 1883.
Probably written by Boucicault himself.
Obits: Athenaeum 27 Sep 1890; The Spirit of the Times 27 Sep 1890.
Fiske, H. G. Boucicault: a memory. Dramatic Mirror Sep 1890.
Walsh, T. The career of Dion Boucicault. New York [1915].
Duggan, G. C. The stage Irishman. Dublin 1937.
Downer, A. S. The case of Mr Lee Moreton. TN 4 1950.
Johnson, A. E. Dion Boucicault: man and fable. Educational Theatre
Jnl 6 1954.
McMahon, S. The wearing of the green: the Irish plays of Dion
Boucicault. Eire-Ireland 2 1957.
McMahon, S. The great train scene robbery. Quart Jnl of Speech 50
1963.
Johnson, A. E. The birth of Dion Boucicault. Modern Drama 11
1968.
Folland, H. F. Lee Moreton: the debut of a theatre man. TN 23 1969.
Hogan, R. Dion Boucicault. New York 1969.
Degan, J. A. How to end The octoroon. Educational Theatre Jnl 27
1975.
Fawkes, R. Dion Boucicault: a biography. 1979.
Molin, S. E. and R. Goodfellowe. Dion Boucicault, the shaughraun:
a documentary life. Pt 1 1979; pt 2 1982.
Richardson, G. A. Boucicault’s The octoroon and American law.
Educational Theatre Jnl 34 1982.
Cave, R. A. Staging the Irishman. In Acts of supremacy, ed J. S.
Bratton et al, Manchester 1991. [pt]
Charles William Shirley Brooks 1816–74
Licensing copies of the plays are located in BL.
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All the plays listed below are also issued in one or more Readex micro edns.
Our new governess. C. (Lyc 1 May 1845). Barth nd; Dicks 855.
The wigwam. Ba. (Lyc 25 Jan 1847). Dicks 1004.
The Creole: or love’s fetters. D. (Lyc 8 Apr 1847). [1847] (priv ptd);
Lacy nd [1850?]; Lacy 1; Dicks 1009.
Anything for a change. Ca. (Lyc 7 June 1848). Lacy 4; French 43; De
Witt 114.
The opera; The coulisses; Foreign gentlemen in London. In A. R.
Smith, Gavarni in London, 1849, [1859] (as Sketches of London
life and characters).
The guardian angel. F. (H 5 Oct 1849). Lacy 5.
The daughter of the stars. D. (Str 5 Aug 1850). Lacy 2.
The exposition: a Scandinavian sketch. Ext. (Str 28 Apr 1851). Lacy
3.
A story with a vengeance: or how many joints may go to a tale. [1852],
[1853]. With A. B. Reach.
The Russians of the south [Egypt and Syria]. 1854. Rptd from the
Morning Chron.
Aspen Court: a story of our times. 3 vols 1855; 1857 (1 vol), 1869. First
pbd in Bentley’s Misc, see below.
The Gordian knot: a story of good and of evil; with illustrations by J.
Tenniel. 1860. First pbd in pts 1858–9.
Timour the Tartar: or the iron master of Samarkand-by-Oxus. Ext.
(Olym 26 Dec 1860). Lacy 49. With J. Oxenford.
The silver cord: a story. 3 vols 1861; New York 1861; Leipzig 1862;
London 1865.
Sooner or later, with illustrations by G. du Maurier. 2 vols 1868. First
pbd in pts 1866–8.
The Naggletons, and Miss Violet and her ‘offers’. 1875.
Wit and humour: poems from Punch. Ed R. S. Brooks 1875.
The Naggletons. New York 1883.