London Assurance

by RichardBean (Author), Dion Boucicault (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $18.20

  Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created, in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker, two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the National Theatre by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $3.79

  Written in 30 days flat, and staged at Covent Garden in 1841 when the author was only twenty-one, London Assurance is regularly rediscovered for the small comedic masterpiece it is. Published to accompany a new production on the biggest of the National Theatre stages in March 2010, starring Simon Russell Beale, this Drama Classics edition includes a full introduction, a stage history, a chronology and a glossary.