Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny "London Assurance" in 1841 and thereby created, in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker, two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the National Theatre by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona [...]
The first full critical study of Dion Boucicault, one of the most dynamic and influential figures in nineteenth-century theatre.[...]