Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second only in popularity to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama.The word octoroon means one-eighth black. A quarter black is a quadroon and a half black is a mulatto.The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Octoroon with the earliest record of the word \"mashup\" with the quote: \"He don't understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican.\" (Boucicault's manuscript actually reads \"Indian, French and 'Merican.\" The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play.)"@en }
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- The_Octoroon abstract "The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second only in popularity to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama.The word octoroon means one-eighth black. A quarter black is a quadroon and a half black is a mulatto.The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Octoroon with the earliest record of the word \"mashup\" with the quote: \"He don't understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican.\" (Boucicault's manuscript actually reads \"Indian, French and 'Merican.\" The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play.)".