Images of Eva Le Gallienne: Reflections of Androgyny / Schanke, Robert A.

Schanke, Robert A., «Images of Eva Le Gallienne: Reflections of Androgyny». Theatre Survey, 34,  2, (1993), pp. 43-54

Abstract
Twenty years after Louis Jacques Daguerre. invented modern photography, Dion Boucicault incorporated the camera as a crucial plot device in his play, The Octoroon. When his character Salem Scudder discovers a freshly taken photograph lying by the body of a murder victim, he holds up the picture as evidence and cries: “Jacob M’Closky, ‘t was you murdered that boy! Here you are, in the very attitude of your crime….’ Tis true! The [camera] can’t lie.”

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ISSN: 1475-4533, 0040-5574
DOI: 10.1017/S0040557400009959
URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-survey/article/images-of-eva-le-gallienne-reflections-of-androgyny/6995F76EEF00AB3D0D568AD85F972E4F
Language: EN
key: GBER2QMA