Boucicault

The taste, the rage for Burlesque, dates from almost the same moment as the introduction of the Boucicault drama.

Many of Dion Boucicault's Irish characters can be admirably imitated.

The exact reversal of the Lear suggestion in the last act was an inspiration, his own and not Boucicault's.

The reader has not forgot the garrison of French, whom the marshal Boucicault left behind him for the defence of Constantinople.

Mr. Boucicault, however, had no faith in the piece or the actor's plan, and down to the last moment prophesied failure.