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The Octoroon

Dion Boucicault

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Mrs. P. Grace, attend to Mr. M'Closky.

M'Closky. A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese,

George. [Aside to Mrs. Peyton.] How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table?

Mrs. P. Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. We tender food to a stranger, not because he is a gentleman, but because he is hungry.

George. Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. Paul has promised me a bear and a deer or two. I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. Excuse me ladies. Ho! Paul! [Enters house.]

Paul. [Outside.] I'ss, Mas'r George.

Enter Paul, R. U. E., with Indian, who goes up.

Sunny. It's a shame to allow that young cub to run over the Swamps and woods, hunting and fishing his life away instead of hoeing cane.

Mrs. P. The child was a favorite of the judge, who en. . . Read More

Community Reviews

Very interesting to read something anti-slavery that was written pre-abolition and emancipation. The two versions of the ending were intriguing and I was very compelled by George and Zoe’s romance. It would’ve been nice to explore Dora and Salem’s unrequited feelings towards the protagonists more, y

A melodrama very much of its time. The Octoroon wants to criticize slavery, but never comes out explicitly against slavery. It does kinda show how slavery can tear families apart, while not digging too far into it. Basically it wants to please both North & South, becoming a semi-bland anti-slavery t

Fascinating. Read for school. Needs a lot of context, but despite the obvious racism, there's an undercurrent of something interesting and challenging. Also, Boucicault himself is a wild ride. Woo hoo!

I was surprised about how much I enjoyed reading this play. While I got some of the characters mixed up, I don’t think that would happen when watching it on stage.

My copy has a brief introduction talking about the play is neither anti or pro slavery, but I really feel as though it is anti slavery be

Revisiting this amazingly racist/anti-racist mess of a play for a seminar I'm teaching. It's more shocking every time, I think. Mostly this time I noticed how slavery and blackness are treated as equivalent by the play and how both are easily used as a metaphor for evil or sin or deception. This is

As social commentary and the like – that is to say, considering its historical popularity and all that – it , and notable that it not only has whites and blacks but also features a native american – but this is somewhat on the side. Sure, it was somewhat progressive ish. Sure, it still manages to be

I read this to prepare for reading the contemporary adaptation "An Octoroon" by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, which I needed to read to prepare for a primary sources instruction session. This original version is fast paced and high melodrama (full of the wringing of handkerchiefs and twirling of moustache

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