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−	''[[The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana~~]]'' is a melodrama by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Boucicault].~~	+	#REDIRECT [[The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana]]
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−	~~Populalrly referred to simply as '''''[[The Octoroon]]'''''.~~
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−	~~==The original text==~~
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−	Boucicault's melodrama about the love between a white man and an octoroon girl (i.e. a girl of one-eighth African descent) was a stage adaptation of the novel ''The Quadroon, or A Lover's Adventures in Louisiana'' (1856) by Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mayne_Reid], about the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne.
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−	The play was first staged in 1859 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, and became extremely popular, running continuously for years, and performed by seven road companies. It was considered second in popularity only to the varuious adaptations of '''''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]''''' (1852-3). The novel and the play sparked debates about the abolition of slavery, and in the latter case about the role of theatre in politics.
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−	~~The text published in London by John Dicks and by De Witt Publishing House, New York, in 1856.~~
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−	~~==Translations and adaptations==~~
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−	~~== Performance history in South Africa ==~~
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−	~~1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 21 and 23 May by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]].~~
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−	1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 24 May by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]], with ''[[Bachelor's Buttons]]'' (Stirling), as a "complimentary Testimonial to the favourite artiste [[Mme. Duret]] by her Admirers".
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−	~~1867: Performed by "[[Le Roy's Original Company]]" in the [[Theatre Royal]], Harrington Street, Cape Town on 11 and 14 February, with ''[[An April Fool]]'' (Halliday and Brough).~~
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−	~~1867: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 16 February, with ''[[Mrs Green's Snug Little Business]]'' (Cheltnam) as afterpiece.~~
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−	1868: Act 3 of the play performed in the old [[Oddfellows Hall]] Cape Town by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] Company on 14 May along with ''[[The Lady and the Devil]]'' (Clarence) and ''[[A Comical Countess]]'' (Brough)
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−	~~1876: Performed by the company of [[Disney Roebuck]] on May 6, 1876, as the opening production of his new [[Theatre Royal]], in Burg Street, Cape Town.~~
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−	~~1884-5: Performed by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s first season as lessee and manager of the venue.~~
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−	1914 - Performed at the [[Palladium Theatre]], Johannesburg, opening on 5 October 1914. Produced by [[Edward Vincent]], the cast included [[Ethel Bracewell]], [[Stephen Scanlan]], [[Austin Milroy]], [[Shelagh Conway]], [[Florence Creagh]], [[Frank Lynne]], [[Dick Cruikshanks]], [[Herbert Lewis]], [[Cecil De Lee]] and [[Martha Rowson]].
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−	~~== Sources ==~~
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−	Facsimile/transcript version of '''''The Quadroon''''', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/reid/reid--quadroon.html]
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−	Facsimile/transcript version of ''[[The Octoroon]]'', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[https://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/boucicault/boucicault--octaroon.html]
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−	~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octoroon~~
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−	~~Rand Daily Mail, 6 October 1914~~
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−	~~''World Drama'', by Allardyce Nicoll.~~
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−	~~[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 204-207, 210, 221-3, 294, 322-335, 339-351, 366, 380~~
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−	~~Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]~~
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−	~~Return to [[PLAYS I: Original SA plays]]~~
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−	~~Return to [[PLAYS IV: Pageants and public performances]]~~
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-''[[The Octoroon]]'' is a melodrama by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Boucicault].
+''[[The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana]]'' is a melodrama by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Boucicault].
-Also known as '''''[[The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana]]'''''.
+Populalrly referred to simply as '''''[[The Octoroon]]'''''.
 ==The original text==

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−	1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on ~~22-~~23 May by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]].	+	1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 21 and 23 May by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]].

	1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 24 May by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]], with ''[[Bachelor's Buttons]]'' (Stirling), as a "complimentary Testimonial to the favourite artiste [[Mme. Duret]] by her Admirers".		1866: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, on 24 May by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]], with ''[[Bachelor's Buttons]]'' (Stirling), as a "complimentary Testimonial to the favourite artiste [[Mme. Duret]] by her Admirers".

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	[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 204-207, 210, 221-3, 294, 322-335, 339-351, 366, 380		[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 204-207, 210, 221-3, 294, 322-335, 339-351, 366, 380
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	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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−	Facsimile/transcript version of ''The Quadroon'', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/reid/reid--quadroon.html]	+	Facsimile/transcript version of '''''The Quadroon''''', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/reid/reid--quadroon.html]

	Facsimile/transcript version of ''[[The Octoroon]]'', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[https://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/boucicault/boucicault--octaroon.html]		Facsimile/transcript version of ''[[The Octoroon]]'', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[https://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/boucicault/boucicault--octaroon.html]

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	Facsimile/transcript version of ''The Quadroon'', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/reid/reid--quadroon.html]		Facsimile/transcript version of ''The Quadroon'', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/reid/reid--quadroon.html]
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		+	Facsimile/transcript version of ''[[The Octoroon]]'', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[https://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/boucicault/boucicault--octaroon.html]

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octoroon		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octoroon

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	The play was first staged in 1859 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, and became extremely popular, running continuously for years, and performed by seven road companies. It was considered second in popularity only to the varuious adaptations of '''''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]''''' (1852-3). The novel and the play sparked debates about the abolition of slavery, and in the latter case about the role of theatre in politics.		The play was first staged in 1859 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, and became extremely popular, running continuously for years, and performed by seven road companies. It was considered second in popularity only to the varuious adaptations of '''''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]''''' (1852-3). The novel and the play sparked debates about the abolition of slavery, and in the latter case about the role of theatre in politics.
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		+	The text published in London by John Dicks and by De Witt Publishing House, New York, in 1856.

	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==

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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==
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		+	Facsimile/transcript version of ''The Quadroon'', in ''Louisiana Anthology/Anthologie Louisianaise'' (edited by Bruce R. Magee and Stephen Payne)[http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/reid/reid--quadroon.html]

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octoroon		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octoroon

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 ==The original text==
-Boucicault's melodrama about the love between a white man and an octoroon girl (i.e. a girl of one-eighth African descent)  was a stage adaptation of the novel ''[[The Quadroon]]''[] by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856)[], about the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne.
+Boucicault's melodrama about the love between a white man and an octoroon girl (i.e. a girl of one-eighth African descent)  was a stage adaptation of the novel ''The Quadroon, or A Lover's Adventures in Louisiana'' (1856) by Thomas Mayne Reid (1818-1883)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mayne_Reid], about the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne.
 The play was first staged in 1859 at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, and became extremely popular, running continuously for years, and performed by seven road companies. It was considered second in popularity only to the varuious adaptations of '''''[[Uncle Tom's Cabin]]''''' (1852-3). The novel and the play sparked debates about the abolition of slavery,  and in the latter case about the role of theatre in politics.