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Images of Eva Le Gallienne: Reflections of Androgyny

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Robert A. Schanke
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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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Theatre Survey , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , November 1993 , pp. 43 - 54
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1993

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