SLSL Intro "Dion"

[Otto]

"The lesson is sad, as Dion always sez, but true: get too conceptual, too
cute and remote, and your characters die on the page." (13.)

1820 Born Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot on December 26th in Dublin, Ireland.
1890 Died on September 18 in New York.
"Dion Boucicault lived a long and very active life as a playwright, actor,
and theatre manager. This versatile theatrical personality wrote or adapted
approximately 130 plays, including London Assurance (1841) and The Poor of
New York (1857), becoming one of the most popular playwrights of his era.
Most of his plays are now forgotten, but The Octoroon (1860) is notable for
its condemnation of slavery. His life's experiences lead him to travels from
Ireland, to London, to France, back to England, to the United States, to
Australia, and back. He is, by far one of the nineteenth centuries most
dynamic theatre personalities. He was a man that came to be known as the
Irish Shakespeare.
http://www.msu.edu/user/dwyerdav/papers/dion.htm

http://www.bartleby.com/227/1103.html

"(...) in the good old bygone days of Dion Boucicault, the elder (...)"
(FW 385.3)
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0002&msg=44437

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9506&msg=1677&keywords=dion
(something entirely different, but this one's a goody too)

Otto

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