Abstract
The Irish playwright Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) spent most of his career in the United States, where he established himself, adapting crucial moments of Irish history to the stage. Robert Emmet (1884), a play produced at the end of his career, arouses questioning surrounding its authorship. The dramatic text was arguably written by the playwright Frank Marshall (1840-1889) at the request of the actor Henry Irving (1838-1905). This paper explores the question of Robert Emmet’s authorship and investigates the reception of the production in its unsuccessful opening season at the McVicker’s Theatre in Chicago in November, 1884, and Boucicault’s part in it.
Highlights
The Irish playwright Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) spent most of his career in the United States, where he established himself, adapting crucial moments of Irish history to the stage
Dionysius Boursiquot, better known as Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), the renowned Irish playwright, actor and theatre manager whose work transcended the Irish stage to the other side of the Atlantic, spent a big part of his life living and working in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1873 (Howes 2011, 84)
Boucicault spent most of his career working in international lands, it was his triptych of Irish plays that granted him notoriety: The Colleen Bawn (1860), Arrah-na-Pogue (1864) and The Shaughraun (1874), which were published in the single volume The Dolmen Boucicault in 1964
Summary
The Irish playwright Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) spent most of his career in the United States, where he established himself, adapting crucial moments of Irish history to the stage.
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