How Long to Read The Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana

How Long Does it Take to Read The Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana?

It takes the average reader and 50 minutes to read The Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana by Dion Boucicault

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault, which 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. 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. Half black is a mulatto, a quarter black is a quadroon. 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.)

How long is The Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana?

The Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana by Dion Boucicault is 50 pages long, and a total of 12,500 words.

This makes it 17% the length of the average book. It also has 15% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 8 minutes to read The Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana aloud.

What Reading Level is The Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana?

The Octoroon Or, Life in Louisiana is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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