Dot a play by Dion Boucicault: based on Charles Dickens' The Cricket on the Hearth

by Charles Dickens, Dion Boucicault

Overview

Dion Boucicault's play adaptation of Charles Dickens Christmas novella The Cricket on the Hearth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781507835029
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	02/02/2015
Series:	Forgotten Words , #1
Pages:	94
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

Dion Boucicault (1820 - 1890) was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre. The New York Times heralded him in his obituary as "the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century."

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington