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    Old Creole Days: A Play in Three Acts
    Old Creole Days: A Play in Three Acts
    Old Creole Days: A Play in Three Acts
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    Old Creole Days: A Play in Three Acts

    By Frank J. Morlock and George Washington Cable

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    The nineteenth-century Southern writer (George Washington Cable) who wrote the stories on which this play is based was born in New Orleans, and the racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of that great city impregnates all his work, and gives him a cast of eccentric and memorable characters worthy of Dickens. Dramatist Frank J. Morlock centers the action of his play around the Café des Exilés in the 1820s, and the square in front of it where all sorts of folks mix together. This setting gives a sort of unity to the actions of Cable's interesting characters--Anglo, French, Spanish, Indian, and Black--who brush against each other and sometimes intersect and interact. The result is a highly entertaining drama of the Old South--with a French accent!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWildside Press
    Release dateMay 1, 2013
    ISBN9781479409761
    Old Creole Days: A Play in Three Acts

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      Fly in amber of a place and time. A bit hard to follow because some dialogue written in dialect. When the Creoles are speaking French to each other, it's in standard English. If they're speaking English it's written in dialect. It took me a while to be able to hear them. There is a lot here about the careful measurements of racial composition. Many plots turn on the possibility of 'mixing' occurring or having occurred. Though some witness or document usually shows up to prove it wasn't really so. Cable has been called a precursor to Faulkner. I was questioning this a minute ago, but now that I have written this... Loving descriptions of the city. An evocative curio that's maybe not for everyone.

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