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A Bibliographr of the LIFE - AND:DRAMATIC AET OFDIGH BGUGICAULT5 A bibliography of the life and dramatic art of Dion Boucicault; with a handlist of plays Item Type text; Thesis-Reproduction (electronic) Authors Livieratos, James Nicholas, 1923- Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 29/09/2021 23:28:54 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/318894 A BiBLIOGRAPHr OF THE LIFE - AND:DRAMATIC AET OFDIGH BGUGICAULT5 ■w i t h A M i d l i s t of pla ys v :': . y '- v ■ V; - , ■■ : ■ \.." ■ .' , ' ' „ ; James H 0 Livieratos " ###*##* " A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPART1#!NT OF DRAMA : ^ : Z; In;Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements ... ■ ' For the Degree : qT :.. y , : ^■ . MASTER OF ARTS : •/ : In the Graduate College ■ / UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA ; 1 9 6 0 STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This thesis has been submitted in partial fulfill­ ment of requirements for an advanced degree at The University of Arizona and is deposited in The University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this thesis are allowable with­ out special permission, provided that accurate acknowledg­ ment of source is made. Requests for permission for ex­ tended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the head of the major department or the Dean of the Graduate College when in their judgment the proposed use of the material is in the interests of scholarship. In all other instances, however, permission must be obtained from the author. SIGNED APPROVAL BY MAJOR DEPARTMENT This thesis has been approved on the date shown below: IZ* / j a A d Peter R. Marroney Xj Date Professor of Drama TAB L E 0 F . C 0 N T E W T S Section I, . General Introduction : Section II A Short Biography.of DionBoucicault : U Section ill A Selected Bibliography 28 Section I¥ Handlist of Plays ' . 64 ; v :; ^ i 8Ij. GENERAL INTRODUCTION . _ When one loeks.at the theatre In'retrospeet9 one often loses sight of what people in a certain era actmally saw and enjoyed» Students of the drama9 looking over the immediate past9 tend to concentrate on figures of high literary value, such as Shaw9 O'Neill9 Ibsen9: Strindberg9 and Chekhov as the great" forceso• While this is true9 these.were not the playwrights whom the average theatre=going audience took to its heart and eheeredo The average person today watches television and by reading the indices we see that our westerns9 modern mystery melodramas9 and sentimental comedies are the main attractions while great operas 9 symphony or** ■■■ chestraS) and dramatic shows such as Omnibus and the Play of the Week struggle to survive0 In our fast growing country of the mid^nineteenth century9 public taste and literary criticism were not as clearly defined as they are today0 Literary scholars and theatre historians lump this mid=nineteenth=century period and pass over it quickly as a time of upstart adolescence in the struggle for the maturity of the twentieth century American drama» Seeking a topic for my thesis led me to this rela® tively unexplored period9 and T was struck by Dion Boueicault9 who seemed to emerge as the reigning prince and idol of the ■■ '' i populace of 1850-1875® Trying to discover more about this playwright whose plays held the American eye for such a long period and whose prolifip pen flowed continuously^ I was surprised that little is attributed to him either as an American playwright or a literary figure of his time0 Theatre historians such as Arthur Hobson Quinn, give a disproportionate evaluation to a Boucieault eon« . teMporary like George HenryBoker9 whose fame rests on one drama9 Francesca da Elmini. whereas Dion Boucieault wrote dozens of successful plays« starting with London Assurance /■in Ib^i^ ; Boucieault ^ s plays were still being produced in the early twentieth century.j were made into movies as late as 1931 (The Pbor; of lew York) 9 and are occasionally pro-* dueed eyeh';today, 'Mr® Peter Harroney9 head of the University of Arizona Drama Department ? is responsible for my deep inter® est in the theatre» He referred me to Dr0 Bat Mo Ryan9 Jr» who has been, bdth adyisor ' and guide 5 who has . taken.' time-;!;© . request informatioh ffom his friendsj who has helped with research8 has lent special material from his own private collection9 and under whom this thesis was undertaken» The University of/Arizona library personnels, particularly 'Mr@ / / ^ Donald Mo' Powell and Mr So LutieLo Hlgley9 has extended in­ valuable help throughout the researeho The thesis contains three main Sections 9 including . a 'shorMograpMy;;©f; Di©h B,oucieault9 -a- selected bibllo- grapiiy3 and a handlist of Bottcieanlt^s known pXayso, A SHORT 11 ©©R&PHI OF ©ION' B©UG IG Boueieamlt ^ Bompeieatilt 9 Boarsequot.s Larimer^ M©retdn9. a M Morton were all names "by which thisman of the theatre was varicmsly known0 Giving all these names only helps us to show under what a cloud of mystery re­ search has been foundering in trying to discover:the trme facts about this dominant ■personality9 'whose figUfe loomed large upon the American and English stage from I8tl to l«90o . ' : :r : V ' ■■■.tf; ; ; Even Boueicault !s birthdate .and parentage are still questioned by scholars9 althoughmost feel that his natural fa ther wa s.Br 0 liohysuis Lardner| , while the da te of his birth yafies from December 2# 9 18203 to December 20 9 1822« .'■Most sources agree/ than his /mother"was-' Anne Marie Darley3 ■ ' who in 1812 married Samuel Smith Boursiquoto Dion Bouei=» , ' eaUlt'; was;v..born::ih';''Dublin9: :,:Irelahdi;'-v::; ■„■ ■' : : In 1 8 3 3 9 •Boucieault attended a private school near London and, then Was enrolled at London University©,: In I8389 he wa s remoted to a 0 oliegiate school in Brentford; ■where he did his first acting and wrote his first play9 :, Haboleonrs Old GuardQ which was later produced at the ^John Parker 9 ede ? WhoJ_s__Who_,in the Theatre.0 1 0 th edition (lew York; Pitman Publishing.Gompany9 1 9 ^7 ) 9 po1 5 0 9 r ■ :> ■ ■■■ \ 5 : ", ,• . ' ; - „• '; .. ■ - ■ ' ..... : V: . : ■■■«. .... ..: ■■ • PriBeess 8s Theatre^ Ldndon9 -18^2 = " lie©!! assigBs. the be^-:"'; - -v giBBlng ©fLBoBeieaultTs playwriting career t© the year 18280 with A Legend of the Devil8 s Dyke« •produced 1m B^ightoB9;' EBglaadV 1 8 3 8 ^ : ■ . ■ ’ • ' ; - On leaving Brentwood3 Bouclcault was apprenticed to Bro DibBysmls Lardtter as an eBglBeer9'but this:work failed to hold Boueieault8s interest9 and he soon, went to the proyiBeess, -where5..aeeording to Barton Hill— actor and reliable., stage'.;historiaB"=-BoBeleaBlt• ■:j©ined an acting ' eoEpany managed by Hill11 s father^ under the stage^name Lee MoretOBo As. a member of the Hill Acting Company? Boueieault ..topredh.thev proylnces ^ and London^ writing and' aetingo There, is some discrepancy as to the year he joined this acting company9 since Boueieault8 s own words differ from Barton . Hill^s 9 .Who'.'ClaimSv t was. a.- member of . the . company in iiS7 when he and the Hill family attended Vie*6 toria *s coronation© ^ Boueieault8s early scripts include Jack Shennardi■ a fOur^act adaptatibn'-' of Ainsworth'1 s novel ;: - •p : ■ ; . ' 1 '■ ■■ • ’ V ’ ; . Townsend Walsh5 The Career of Blon Boueieault . • ' ;lPublieati©n of the Dunlap Soe.Ietys 3rd Seriess HoG xlg ... 'Hew. Torfc9 191^)9 .ppo ■-ll»iM'o - 'y' ■' •.. ''l- '; 1 • Centurv Dramaa l800”l85Q (CambridgeQ Englands At the Univer™ sify Press j 1930)^. 1 ? 1 8 8 . ,. : . • ... '. ., , > ' . ' . / . Walsh« Obo clt O 0 Po. 15b ; ■ . .. ' . r . '. • ; ; ' : : Vhbid„>." /.; ' I : " of: the; same aame« produced December 2 8 3 1 8 3 9% at the Royal Theatre in Emil; The Legend of the Devilge Bytee. Brighton9 ' : '■ . ■ ■ ' .. ■ ■ % :: , '■ ' < ■ ' l8 3 8 g and Hard Doa Queen's Theatren London. 184-0 0 ; -' v!■' ; In lSVlj Bomcicamlt wentr.t©'.‘London with letters o f , introdaetion from Barton Hill9 which he presented to Charles - Ha thews manager1 ofthe Covent Garden-' Theatre^: :-al©hg-withv;' ■ the script9 A Lover By Proxy, which was refusedc A month ; later 5, however 9 Mathews accepted ■.London: Assurance^ and pro« dmeedA' it March V ? l8 4 l9 at Govemt Garden Theatre 9 .where : '' A:'" if was an instantaneoms smceess» ' \ V. Imring the next ten years9 Bomcicamlt did no acting9 >mt wrote a nmmber of plays 9 1all prodmeed in London9 in® : ; ■clmdihg The Irish Heiress a the:1 first drama produced under ■ ■■ his own name 5 February9 18U2 g A Lover by Proxyo April 2 1 0 V y o V A 1' l#4 -2 % Alma Mater g or.. A Cure■ for Coquettes. September 19-9 : l84-29 a play attacked as being full of plagiarism; Curio® si ties of Literature ci’ September 19 5 1842; Sharp ^s the Word, Lynn Eari Orr9 "Dion Boueieault and the lineteenth Century Theatres A Biography.)" PhoD0- Dissertation;.. ' Louisihne State University^ 19429 pp0 21®22o I am pleased to acknowledge my indebtedness to this fine study; which has proved a leading source for facts presented In the present ■ thesis 9 and which I shall: frequently, cite in the succeeding ' pages.o- v.: ■ :;Ay .; :. :::- v ' ■ 'Montrose F 0 Mdses* Famous Actor-Familles in America (Mew Yorks : Thomas D c Crowell & Company9 1 9 0 6 ) • • Orr ; , .Q]3 a cl t o 0 p » 3 5 - 9 ; • ; : 1 ^HiCoil* A ;Hid tOrv of Eaflv lineteenth Century Drama iSOO^iS^O? •’ I!. • ■■■■ ' ..,r ■ , ' 7 ■ ; . 18^3? Woman0
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