London Assurance
Dion Boucicault author James L Smith editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:5th Jan '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Play script, including biographical notes, textual details and information about the staging of the play.
Dion Boucicault was a witty, selfish and deceitful charmer, a bigamist, a profligate spendthrift and the author of dozens of successful plays, only a handful of which endure. Among these his early comedies influenced Oscar Wilde, and his Irish melodramas Shaw, Synge, and O'Casey. London Assurance was his first success, a 'modern comedy' which opened at Covent Garden in 1841 and was the hit of the season. This is the first fully-annotated edition of the play, and it includes an outline of the author's amazing career, an account of the play's composition, and a critical introduction.
ISBN: 9780713626094
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 300g
137 pages