The Colleen Bawn; or, the Brides of Garryowen

Name: The Colleen Bawn; or, the Brides of Garryowen
Author: Dion Boucicault

by Dion Boucicault, Gerald Griffin

EN·~1 hours

Chapters

Description

Based on Gerald Griffin's novel, "The collegians".

Details

Language

Duration

~1 hours (108K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Henry Flower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2016-08-29

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Irish drama -- 19th century

About the authors

Dion Boucicault

1820–1890

A master of 19th-century melodrama, he packed the stage with sharp dialogue, vivid emotion, and a strong feel for what audiences loved. His hit plays, including The Colleen Bawn and The Octoroon, helped shape popular theater in Britain and the United States.

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Gerald Griffin

1803–1840

Best remembered for the novel that inspired Dion Boucicault’s famous play The Colleen Bawn, this Irish writer packed fiction, poetry, journalism, and folklore into a life that ended far too soon. His work is closely tied to the people, speech, and landscape of Munster.

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