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The play charts the transformation of Jean Durand into the pirate leader Jean Lafitte, interweaving a romantic subplot between him and Mariana D’Acosta with family obligations, inheritance conditions, and political exile. Scenes alternate between a French prologue, New Orleans salons, ships at sea, and the Red House at Barataria, bringing together nuns, voodoo practitioners, merchants, and naval officers as competing authorities. Tensions among loyalty, honor, law, and survival escalate through duels, schemes, and shifting alliances involving American and British officers and local officials. The work contrasts intimate personal loyalties with larger questions of national allegiance and the ambiguous morality of privateering and piracy.

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Title: Lafitte, a play in prologue and four acts

Author: Lucile Rutland

Lucie Levéque Ayres

Release date: September 18, 2022 [eBook #69010]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United States: None listed, 1899

Credits: Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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LAFITTE

A PLAY
IN PROLOGUE
AND
FOUR ACTS
BY

Lucile Rutland and Rhoda Cameron

Copyright, 1899, by Lucile Rutland and Lucie Leveque
Ayres, (Rhoda Cameron). All rights reserved