London Assurance (Drama Classics)

London Assurance (Drama Classics)

by Dion Boucicault (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Published: 18 Mar 2010

ISBN 10: 1848420862
ISBN 13: 9781848420861

Media Reviews
wonderfully outrageous... bursting with elegant, biting but warm-hearted wit and revelling in its own mastery of theatrical skill... a comic masterpiece -Sunday Times
wonderfully outrageous... bursting with elegant, biting but warm-hearted wit and revelling in its own mastery of theatrical skill... a comic masterpiece Sunday Times
Author Bio
DION BOUCICAULT (Boo-si-co) was born in Dublin in 1820 and died in New York in 1890 having written some hundred and fifty plays in almost every genre, but mostly comedies and melodramas. Only a few titles are still known, among them The Shaughraun (1874) and The Colleen Bawn (1860), both successfully revived at the National Theatre