10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCTOROON»
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With your New England hypocrisy, you would persuade yourself that it was this family alone you cared for; it ain't--you know it ain't--'tis the "Octoroon"; and you love her as I do; and, you hate me because I'm your rival--that's where the ...
Richard Breen, Jr. Rudy handed the rest of the money and jewels to Lady Richter
. “You're the finest whore I've ever met, Lucy,” he said fondly, then flushed with
embarrassment. “I'm sorry. I called you Lucy, didn't I?” “It sounds delicious, ...
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Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and ...
Another Country: Spectacles of Conjugal Colonialism and the Empire's Body in
the English Octoroon After returning to Britain in 1860 to present his critically
acclaimed Irish epic The Colleen Bawn, Boucicault again opened The Octoroon
in ...
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Plays by Dion Boucicault
APPENDIX C The ending of The Octoroon The story of the ending of The
Octoroon is tangled. It has been too readily believed that the 'unhappy' ending
was liked at the Winter Garden in New York in 1859, and disliked - and, therefore,
...
Dion Boucicault, Peter Thomson, 1984
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Interracialism : Black-White Intermarriage in American ...
Specifically, it should be recognized that the appeal of the "tragic octoroon"
situation was not based primarily upon a racially snobbish feeling that a white
person in chains was more pathetic than a black one. Rather, the plight of the
octoroon ...
Werner Sollors Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of Afro-American Studies Harvard University, 2000
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Interracialism: Black-white Intermarriage in American ...
Specifically, it should be recognized that the appeal of the "tragic octoroon"
situation was not based primarily upon a racially snobbish feeling that a white
person in chains was more pathetic than a black one. Rather, the plight of the
octoroon ...
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The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in ...
Piazza identified herself as an octoroon, but her profession as a prostitute and
madam, and the erotic connotations that surrounded that racial identity when it
was attached to a woman, have obscured the importance of the legal battle she ...
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Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre
KIMBERLY HARRISON MARY BRADDON'S The Octoroon; or, The Lily of
Louisiana was serialized in John Maxwell's Halfpenny Journal from November
1861 to March 1862. The novel was one of the many that Braddon wrote
anonymously ...
Kimberly Harrison, Richard Fantina, 2006
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The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, ...
Herbert Asbury in The French Quarter (1936) reports that the light-skinned
quadroons surpassed white women in beauty and that the quadroon balls
surpassed the white masked balls in popularity. Because quadroon and octoroon
women ...
Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, Todd W. Taylor, 2002
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Best Plays of the Early American Theatre, 1787-1911
The Octoroon was still considered by New York reviewers an interesting piece of
theatre when stnged by Stuart Vaughan for the New York Phoenix Theatre led by
Norris Houghton and T. Edward Hambleton. Richard Watts, Jr., published an ...
John Gassner, Mollie Gassner, 2000
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCTOROON»
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Mamie Gummer & More Tapped for Lindsey Ferrentino's Ugly Lies …
... Fidelis and The Wayside Motor Inn. Thigpen has appeared in Dead Accounts and Misalliance on Broadway and An Octoroon and The Patron ... «Broadway.com, Jul 15»
New York Theatre Workshop Announces Artists for the 2050 …
Past fellows include Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (An Octoroon), Drama League fellow Elena Araoz and Matthew Lopez, whose The Legend of ... «Playbill.com, Jul 15»
Cast Set for Lisa Lewis's SCHOOLED at FringeNYC; Runs Next Month
... Friedman (The Nether), Sarah Steele (Slow Girl at Lincoln Center) and Zoë Winters (An Octoroon). Additional development includes readings ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
At Harbor Stage, playwrights go underground
Company One's Summer Williams will helm Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's “An Octoroon” (Jan. 28-Feb. 27 in the Jackie Liebergott Black Box at ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
Review: 'Off the Main Road' Stars Kyra Sedgwick as a Wife in Distress
Ms. Wiseman, last seen going happily over the top in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's “An Octoroon,” gives a wonderfully affecting performance as ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Review: 'Oklahoma!' Preserves a Classic While Adding Punch
... the elusive Laurey (played with haunting, self-protective pluckiness by Ms. Gray, late of “An Octoroon”). And did I mention the video cameras ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
Photo Flash: First Look at Mary Testa, Damon Daunno, Amber Gray …
... "startling emotional veracity" in the title role of last year's Obie Award-winning production of An Octoroon. Also vying for Laurey's hand is hired ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
FACE IT: New Plays. New Voices
Branden jacobs-Jenkins is just 30 years old and he's already won off- Broadway awards for his shows Appropriate and An Octoroon. And now ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
The Cast of 'Amazing Grace' Grapples With Slavery
... “12 Years a Slave,” which won the 2014 Academy Award for best picture — and, increasingly, Off Broadway, in such plays as “An Octoroon.”. «New York Times, Jul 15»
Staging the American mythos
This includes working on a new play, WHITE, this summer at the play-development organization PlayPenn and performing in An Octoroon at ... «Philly.com, Jun 15»
