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I. The Shaughraun and materials by Dion Boucicault
“Ireland’s Story”. Boucicault’s pamphlet, on the sad history of Ireland. Titled “Fireside
History of Ireland” or “Story of Ireland” in the United Kingdom,”Ireland’s Story” as titled
in the US, microfilm at New York Public Library. Published in the US with introduction by
John De Morgan; NY: Metropolitan Publishing Company {originally published in England:
Manchester, Liverpool, and Bishopsgate in 1881].
The Dolmen Boucicault. Edited with commentary by David Krause. Authentic texts of
Boucicault’s three most prominent Irish plays with a glossary of Irish expressions.
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1964.
Selected Plays of Dion Boucicault. Introduction and edited by Andrew Parkin.
Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University Press, 1987.
“The Shaughraun”. Plays by Dion Boucicault. Edited with introduction and notes by Peter
Thomson. NY and London: Cambridge University Press, 1984. This version of The
Shaughraun is a copy of the Wallack’s promptbook in the USF Special Collections.
“The Wearin’ of the Green”, song lyrics set to traditional melody, introduced by Dion
Boucicault in Arrah-na-Pogue, 1864. Reprinted in The Dolmen Boucicault, p. 171-2.
Open letter to Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of Britain, January 1, 1876. Boucicault
pleads for the government’s support of the Home Rule Movement. Reprinted in
Townsend Walsh, The Career of Dion Boucicault, pp137-140.
“The Shaughraun”, handwritten prompt book in the collection of University of South
Florida, dates from first performance at Wallack’s Theatre, New York City, 1874. With
attached illustrations, presumably from Illustrated London News, drawn from the Drury
Lane Production, 1875. Contains a program for The Shaughraun, identified as that of a
performance at Boston Theatre, Boston, MA, October 21, 1876, with Boucicault
appearing as Conn.
II. On Boucicault and The Shaughraun
Boltwood, Scott. “ ‘The Ineffaceable Curse of Cain’: Race, Miscegenation and the
Victorian Staging of Irishness” in Victorian Literature and Culture 2001; 383-396.
Calthorp, Christopher. “Dion Boucicault,” a note in Ex Libris, series of pamphlets
published on collections housed at the University of South Florida Library, Spring, 1979.
Author is the grandson of Dion Boucicault and bequeathedhis collection to University of
Kent at Canturbury.
Carney, Bryan T. “Seeing Double: Theatrical Strategies and Cultural Anxieties in
Boucicault”. Theatre Symposium, vol. 10 -2002. Representation of Gender on the
Nineteenth-Century American Stage. Southeastern Theatre Conference and University
of Alabama Press.
Fawkes, Richard. Dion Boucicault. Foreword by Donald Sinden. London: Quartet
Press.1979. The biography; also wrote note on “Dion Boucicault”, Ex Libris, Spring,
1979. Ex Libris was a regular publication of USF Library Special Collections.
Grene, Nicholas. The Politics of Irish Drama: Plays in Context from Boucicault to Friel.
Cambridge, UK, and NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Harrington, John P. The Irish Play on the New York Stage 1874-1966. Lexington, KY:
The University Press of Kentucky, 1997. The first chapter, “ Dion Boucicault, the Irish
Play and the Politics of Reconciliation” [9-33] is especially relevant and the writer is very
perceptive.
Hogan, Robert. Dion Boucicault. NY: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1969. Compact
biography with excellent bibliography and chronology.
McCormick, John. Dion Boucicault (1820-1890). Slide collection, 50 slides with guide.
Published by Chadwyck-Healey (Cambridge, UK, and Alexandria, VA), 1987, with
Consortium for Drama and Media in Higher Education. Slides 43-48 pertain to the first
London production of The Shaughraun. [ Perhaps I would except #45] Scenic plates
drawn from the Illustrated London News with scenic designs based on original
illustrations in Bartlett’s Scenes of Ireland. This excellent collection contains an
illustrated monograph on Boucicault’s stagecraft as reflected in the 50 slides.
Molin, Sven Eric, and Robin Goodefellowe. Dion Boucicault, the shaughraun: a
documentary life, letters and selected works. Compiled by Molin and Goodefellowe. 4
parts (small volumes). Newark, Delaware: Proscenium Press, c 1979.
Parker, Stewart. “The Pursuit of Pleasure” printed in the programme for the production
of The Shaughraun, Royal National Theatre, Great Britain, 1988, and in the Abbey
Theatre programme for The Shaughraun in 2004, this production part of the Abbey’s
celebration of its centenary.
Parker, Stewart. Heavenly Bodies in the collection, Stewart Parker Plays 2. London:
Methuen Drama, 2000. Parker’s vaudeville about the life of Dion Boucicault.
Richtarik, Marilynn. “Stewart Parker and Boucicault”. Modern Drama.
<http://www.utpjournals.com/product/md/433/bodies5.html> A discussion of how
Parker came to write Heavenly Bodies and the influence of Boucicault on Parker, the late
Irish playwright (died in 1985).
Walsh, Townsend. The Career of Dion Boucicault. NY: The Dunlap Society, 1915, and
reprinted by B. Blom (NY), 1967.
III. Related Critical Works
Felheim, Martin. The Theatre of Augustin Daly. Boston: Harvard University Press, 1956.
Grimsted, David. Melodrama Unveiled: American Melodrama and Culture, 1800-1850.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
Leersen, Jeep. Remembrance and Imagination: Patterns in the Historical and Literary
Representation of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Critical Conditions: Field Day
Monographs. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997.
McConachie, Bruce. Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, 18201870. Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa Press, 1992.
Mendelsohn, Daniel. “The Melodramatic Moment”, New York Times Magazine,
March 22, 2003; 40-43 +.
IV. General Historical Analyses and Materials
Clarke, Dr. Aidan. “The Colonisation of Ulster and the Rebellion of 1641: 1603-60.” The
Course of Irish History; 4th Edition. Edited by T.W. Moody and F.X. Martin. Canada and
US: Roberts-Rinehardt Publishers, 2001; 152-164.
Devoy, John. Recollections of an Irish Rebel. Chas. P. Young Company, Printers, USA,
1929, copyright belonging to the Estate of John Devoy.
A remarkable account of the cause of Irish independence including the rise of Fenianism
in the 1850’s and the interaction of Irish and American patriots up through Roger
Casement’s execution as a traitor in August, 1916. Key section on the Catalpa voyage in
1876. Devoy was amnestied in 1871 and began his international activities on behalf of
Fenianism. Discusses major personalities and events including The Manchester Martyrs
and the explosion at Clerkenwell in 1867.
Devoy remarks that Prime Minister Gladstone admitted in a speech that introduced the
bill to disestablish the Church of Ireland (an issue in which the Irish people were not
particularly interested) that his new outlook on Irish affairs was due to the intensity of
Fenianism (p.250).
In 1871 thirty of the Fenian prisoners tried in the British civil courts from 1865 to 1867
were released from prison on condition that they reside out of Ireland. These included
organizers who under James Stephens had been instrumental in organizing a vital
section of Fenians in the British army; however, the soldiers who had joined were
sentenced to prison terms, most of them at Fremantle, Western Australia.
In 1871 Gladstone had yielded to the strong pressure of public opinion favoring the
Fenians, brought about in part by the Amnesty agitation led by parliamentarian Isaac
Butt, George Henry Moore and John Nolan. He wanted to release all the prisoners; but
a characteristically English reason prevented the soldiers’ pardon: the Duke of
Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief of the British army and Queen Victoria’s cousin, had
objected. He said amnesty for military members “would be subversive of discipline in
the army” (p 251); hence, imprisonment in Australia for the soldiers.
“Fenian.” Encyclopedia Britannica. 2004. Encyclopedia Premium Service, 2 Nov.2004
http://www.brittanica.com/eb/article?tocid=9033980. Other entries online in Encarta
www.encarta.msn.com and http://www.irelandsown.net
Hughes, Robert. The Fatal Shore. NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1987. A history of the settlement
of Australia.
McCartney, Donal. “The Church and Fenianism”, essay in Fenians and Fenianism, edited
by Michael Hurst. Dublin: Specter Books, 1970, in conjunction with The University of
Washington in Seattle; 13-27.
Moody, T. W. “Fenianism, Home Rule, and the Land Wars” in The Course of Irish
History; 4th Edition. Edited by T.W. Moody and F.X. Martin. Canada and US: RobertsRinehardt Publishers, 2001; 228-244
O’Donovan Rossa (Listed only by the last names on the title page. First name Jer.
[Jeremiah] appears on interior page. Handwritten dedicatory note is signed Jeremiah
and last name is hyphenated.) Irish Rebels in English Prisons: A Record of Prison Life.
New York: P.J. Kennedy, Excelsior Catholic Publishing House, 5 Barclay Street, 1899.
(Estate sold the plates and script to Kennedy) Author was part of the Fenian prisoner
group sent out of Ireland as part of the Amnesty agreement executed in January, 1871.
He had been convicted 1865 and held through 1870. He came to the US, edited The
United Irishman newspaper. This narrative is a very descriptive account of his time in
the English penal system.
“O’Neills.” Encycloepedia Britannica, 14th edition (1929); see other articles in Online
Brittanica on “Sligo”, “Isaac Butt”, “John O’Mahony”, “Fenians”.
Rafferty, Oliver P. The Church, the State and the Fenian Threat, 1861-75. NY and
London: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 1999.
Shaw, Bernard. The Matter with Ireland. 2nd edition. Edited by Dan H. Laurence and
David H. Greene. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
note on p. 29 - Fenians: the soubriquet of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, “a secret
revolutionary society that instigated the rising of 1867”… Named after the ancient band
of Irish warriors in the heroic age. Fiann or feann. The book is useful for commentary
on late Victorian Irish politics from Shaw’s point of view.
Stedman, Janet. W.S. Gilbert’s Theatrical Criticism. London: The Society for Theatre
Research, 2000. Reprints Gilbert’s droll parodying Boucicault’s play about horseracing,
The Flying Scud.
Stage Deaths: a biographical guide to international theatrical obituaries, 1850 to 1990.
Compiled by George B. Bryan. New York: Greenwood Press. 2 vols. 1991.
Wharton, Edith. The Age of Innocence. NY: Twentieth Century Library, Book of the
Month Club, 1991. Martin Scorsese’s feature film, The Age of Innocence (1993), shows
a recreated onstage scene from The Shaughraun—Clare and Molineux’s farewell (II,iii).
Distributed by Columbia Pictures in the US.
I. Libraries and Holdings of Boucicaultiana:
The Templeman Library at the University of Kent in Canterbury has the largest and most
various holding of materials relating to Boucicault:
1. bouclist at the Templeman in Canterbury (now the University of Kent at Canterbury)
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/special/html/specoll/list.htm
2. Boucicault Cuttings
<http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/special/html/specoll/BOUCUT.HTM>
Here are several other paths to access information on holdings at the U. of Kent in the
Templeman Library:
3. lhttp://library.kent.ac.uk/library/speccvpa\cial/html/specoll/homepg.htm
4.. The Fawkes Collection:
Docs in Fawkes Coll. U. Canterbury http://javelin.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/cgibin/backstage/query.pl?query=type%3ditem+and+any%3dcld1037619718
5. The Calthorp Boucicault Collection:
http://library.kent.ac.uk/library/special/html/specoll/boucal.htm
6. The Pettingill Collection Pettingell Coll. U. Canterbury
http://javelin.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/cgibin/backstage/query.pl?view=full_single&query=type%3dcollection+and+any%3dcld988
024948
7. Links through U. Canterbury Backstage: Search Backstage
http://javelin.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/cgibin/backstage/query.pl?query=type%3ditem+and+any%3dcld1037619718
The University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida— the outstanding collection of
promptbooks and other Boucicaultiana in the US.
1. USF Libraries Digital Collections USF Libraries Boucicault
http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/index2.html?f=guide&collectionid=B16 and
2. USF Libraries http://www.lib.usf.edu/ldsu/index2.html?f=searchfullrecord&idx=1&collectionid_id=B16.spcnew888&results_display_mode=textual
New York Public Library in NY, NY
1. Boucicault in NYPL.org -All Locations
http://catnyp.nypl.org/search/aBoucicault+Dion/aboucicault+dion/1,2,162,B/exact&FF=a
boucicault+dion+1820-1890&49,161 and
2. NYPL Express Information Services http://www.nypl.org/express/
Harvard Theatre Collection - The Houghton Library Web Site
http://hcl.harvard.edu/houghton/departments/htc/collection
Theatre Collection Home Page, University of Bristol
http://www.bris.ac.uk/theatrecollection/Theatre Library Association
“The Wearin’ of the Green”, lyrics and audio:http://irelandsown.net/wearingreen.html
II. Publications:
Another connection to Backstage:
Boucicault search Backstage –Backstage, prominent British performing arts/theatre
publication
http://javelin.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/cgibin/backstage/query.pl?last_name=Boucicault&first_name=Dion&type=collection&x=5
&y=11
Illustrated London News Magazine 1843-1990
http://www.millionmagazines.com/iln.html
+ The Victorian Web-Periodicals See
below under Web help.
Irish writers centre http://www.writerscentre.ie/
III. Theatres and Museums:
The Adelphi Theatre 1806-1900 A Calendar of Performances
http://www.emich.edu/public/english/adelphi_calendar/acpmain.htm
Irish Repertory Theatre http://www.millionmagazines.com/iln.html
NYC
please note, in
Irish writers centre http://www.writerscentre.ie/
Lyric Theatre Belfast http://www.lyrictheatre.co.uk/
Milwaukee Repertory Theater - Live Theater at its Best
http://www.milwaukeerep.com/
National Museum of Ireland http://www.museum.ie/
National Theatre, now known as Royal National Theatre, in London
1. National Theatre Contact the Archive How to get in touch
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=7096
2. National Theatre Stage by Stage South Bank 1976-1991
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=9787
3. National Theatre Website Help Search http://www.ntonline.org/?lid=152&query=permission
4. British Press Photographers Association Nobby Clark Photographer of 1988 National
Theatre production of The Shaughraun
http://www.britishpressphoto.org/nobbyclark/index.html
Trinity College, University of Dublin--Theatre Program http://www.tcd.ie/Drama/theatreEvents.php
IV. Web Help
American Society for Theatre Research
http://www.astr.umd.edu
Society for Theatre Research (British) http://theatremuseum.org/default.php
Theatre Library Association (American) http://tla.library.unt.edu
The WWW Virtual Library for Theatre and Drama http://vltheatre.com
Theatrecrafts.com - Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms for stage directions
http://www.theatrecrafts.com/glossary/glossary.shtml
The Victorian Web--“periodicals”
http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/periodicals.html
For substantiation on illustrations from the London Illustrated News.
How to cite electronic texts: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/list.html-- regular reference formats
;
Irish history site: http://www.irelandsown.net/rossa.html on Jeremiah O’Donovan-Rossa
http://irelandsown.net/devoy.html on John Devoy
http://www.irelandsown.net/ppearse2.html1-- Padraic Pearse’s oration at the graveside of
J. O’Donovan-Rossa, 1915
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