BOUCICAULT AND THE IRISH LITERARY RENAISSANCECURTAIN-CALL; Appendix; DION BOUCICAULT'S OPEN LETTER TO THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, JANUARY 1876; Notes; INTRODUCTION; 1 BECOMING BOUCICAULT; 2 NATIONALISM, RACE AND CLASS IN THE...
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BOUCICAULT AND THE IRISH LITERARY RENAISSANCECURTAIN-CALL; Appendix; DION BOUCICAULT'S OPEN LETTER TO THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, JANUARY 1876; Notes; INTRODUCTION; 1 BECOMING BOUCICAULT; 2 NATIONALISM, RACE AND CLASS IN THE COLLEEN BAWN; 3 MUSIC, MYTH AND CENSORSHIP IN ARRAH-NA-POGUE; 4 ALTERNATIVE READINGS: THE RAPPAREE AND DADDY O'DOWD; 5 THE POLITICS OF EXILE: THE SHAUGHRAUN IN NEW YORK; 6 'AUDIENCES ARE NOT POLITICAL ASSEMBLIES': THE SHAUGHRAUN IN LONDON; 7 SUPPORTING THE LAND LEAGUE: THE O'DOWD; CONCLUSION: TOWARDS AN IRISH NATIONAL DRAMA; Bibliography. Cover; DION BOUCICAULT; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: Becoming Boucicault; LONDON AND PARIS; AMERICA: SENSATIONALISING THE CONTEMPORARY; THE OCTOROON: THE MOST CONTEMPORARY OF ALL; CHAPTER 2: Nationalism, race and class in The Colleen Bawn; THE COLLEEN BAWN -- AN IRISH OCTOROON?; LONDON; DUBLIN; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 3: Music, myth and censorship in Arrah-na-Pogue; A DUBLIN PREMIERE; COMMAND NIGHT AT THE THEATRE ROYAL; 'PLAYS ARE NOT WRITTEN; THEY ARE REWRITTEN'; 'THE WEARING OF THE GREEN'; LONDON, MARCH 1865. CHAPTER 6: 'Audiences are not political assemblies': The Shaughraun in LondonTHE SHAUGHRAUN AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE; THE POLITICS OF THE DRAMA; BOUCICAULT'S LETTER TO DISRAELI: 'ONE WORD FOR THE FENIAN PRISONERS'; THE ENGLISH PRESS RESPONDS; THE IRISH RESPONSE; THE BOUCICAULT FUND; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 7: Supporting the Land League: The O'Dowd; INTRODUCTION; RETURN TO THE LONDON STAGE; THE O'DOWD; STAGING A BOYCOTT; BOUCICAULT'S POLITICAL STATEMENT; RECEPTION: 'THIS IS TOO MUCH!'; WITHDRAWAL; CONCLUSION; ROBERT EMMET: A CODA; Conclusion: Towards an Irish national drama; FINAL YEARS. LONDON, 1867 AND 1868DUBLIN, NOVEMBER 1868; 'THE WEARING OF THE GREEN': IRELAND AND ABROAD; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 4: Alternative readings: The Rapparee and Daddy O'Dowd; THE RAPPAREE, LONDON, SEPTEMBER 1870; SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TITLE; THE RAPPAREE, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 1870; DADDY O'DOWD, NEW YORK, 1873; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 5: The politics of exile: The Shaughraun in New York; THE POLITICS OF EXILE; CONSTRUCTING AN IMAGE OF IRELAND; POLITICAL 'SPICE AND FLAVOR'; THE 'IRISH OF IRELAND'; THE CATHOLIC PRIEST; BETWEEN TWO WORLDS; CONCLUSION. PRIMARY SOURCESSECONDARY SOURCES; Index. The first full critical study of Dion Boucicault, one of the most dynamic and influential figures in nineteenth-century theatre
