Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dion Boucicault (in 'The Shaughraun') NPG D17097

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Alfred Bryan, for Maclure & Macdonald

Dion Boucicault was an Irish-American playwright and actor, and was a major influence on the form and content of American drama. Educated in England, he began acting in 1837. His first play was rejected but his second, London Assurance (1841), was a huge success. In 1853 Boucicault moved to New York, where his plays and adaptations were extremely popular. He led a movement of playwrights that in 1856 produced the first copyright law for drama in the United States. His play The Octoroon; or, Life... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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