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The Shaughraun is a melodramatic
Melodrama

The theatrical genre of Melodrama utilizes theme-music to manipulate the spectator's emotional response and to denote character types. The term combines "melody" and "drama"....
 play written by Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 playwright
Scriptwriter

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 Dion Boucicault
Dion Boucicault

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot was an Irish people 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, eventually heralded by The New York Times in his o...
. It was first performed at Wallack's Theatre, New York
New York City

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, on 14 November 1874. Boucicault played Con in the original production. The play was a huge success, making half a million dollars for Boucicault, which he squandered.

play is about a Fenian
Fenian

The Fenians, both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, were fraternal organisations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic in the nineteenth and early twentieth century....
 fugitive
Fugitive

A fugitive is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from private slavery, a government arrest, government or non-government interrogation, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals....
, Robert Ffolliott, fiancee of Arte O'Neil. A country squire
Squire

Medieval usageThe English word squire comes from the Old French , itself derived from the Vulgar Latin , in medieval or Old English a 'scutifer].....
, Kinchela, his rival for Arte's hand, tries to hunt Robert down and arrest him, with the help of a police informer, Harvey Duff.






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The Shaughraun is a melodramatic
Melodrama

The theatrical genre of Melodrama utilizes theme-music to manipulate the spectator's emotional response and to denote character types. The term combines "melody" and "drama"....
 play written by Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 playwright
Scriptwriter

A scriptwriter is a person who writes Screenplay and script for movies, games, comics, plays, television, comedy shows, political speeches, and other presentations....
 Dion Boucicault
Dion Boucicault

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot was an Irish people 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, eventually heralded by The New York Times in his o...
. It was first performed at Wallack's Theatre, New York
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, on 14 November 1874. Boucicault played Con in the original production. The play was a huge success, making half a million dollars for Boucicault, which he squandered.

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The play is about a Fenian
Fenian

The Fenians, both the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, were fraternal organisations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic in the nineteenth and early twentieth century....
 fugitive
Fugitive

A fugitive is a person who is fleeing from custody, whether it be from private slavery, a government arrest, government or non-government interrogation, vigilante violence, or outraged private individuals....
, Robert Ffolliott, fiancee of Arte O'Neil. A country squire
Squire

Medieval usageThe English word squire comes from the Old French , itself derived from the Vulgar Latin , in medieval or Old English a 'scutifer].....
, Kinchela, his rival for Arte's hand, tries to hunt Robert down and arrest him, with the help of a police informer, Harvey Duff. Robert escapes various melodramatic cliffhanger
Cliffhanger

A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation....
 situations with the help of Con the Shaughran (Irish
Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic languages of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people....
 seachránaí = wanderer, errant person), a roguish stage Irish
Stage Irish

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 poacher who provides a great deal of comic relief
Comic Relief

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Robert's sister, Claire Ffolliot, is in love with an English
English people

The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England who speak English language in England. The English identity as a people is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn....
 soldier
Soldier

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, Captain Molineaux, who is tracking down Fenians in the area. She cannot decide whether or not to protect her brother or betray the Captain. However, Molineaux's fish out of water
Fish out of water

Fish out of water may refer to:* Fish Out of Water by Chris Squire* Fish Out of Water by Tears For Fears, album: Elemental * Fish Out of Water by One Minute Silence...
 attitudes to rural
Rural

Rural areas are large and isolated areas of a country, often with low populations. Today, 75 percent of the United States' inhabitants live in suburban and urban areas, but cities occupy only 2 percent of the country....
 Ireland
Ireland

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 provide comic relief, and all ends well. The Fenians receive a general amnesty
Amnesty

Amnesty is a legislative or executive act by which a state restores those who may have been guilty of an offense against it to the positions of innocent persons....
, the couples marry, Kinchela is arrested, and Harvey Duff falls off a cliff
Cliff

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