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Dion Boucicault was a witty, selfish and deceitful charmer, a bigamist, a profligate spendthrift and the author of dozens of successful plays, only a handful of which endure. Among these his early comedies influenced Oscar Wilde, and his Irish melodramas Shaw, Synge, and O''Casey. London Assurance was his first success, a ''modern comedy'' which opened at Covent Garden in 1841 and was the hit of t...
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Dion Boucicault was a witty, selfish and deceitful charmer, a bigamist, a profligate spendthrift and the author of dozens of successful plays, only a handful of which endure. Among these his early comedies influenced Oscar Wilde, and his Irish melodramas Shaw, Synge, and O''Casey. London Assurance was his first success, a ''modern comedy'' which opened at Covent Garden in 1841 and was the hit of t...
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