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London Assurance

Dion Boucicault author James L Smith editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:5th Jan '04

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London Assurance cover

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