Caste (play)

Caste is a comedy drama by T. W. Robertson, first seen in 1867. The play was the third of several successes by Robertson produced in London's West End by Squire Bancroft and his wife Marie Wilton. As its name suggests, Caste concerns distinctions of class and rank. Captain George D'Alroy, the son of a French nobleman, marries a lower-class ballet dancer, Esther Eccles, and then goes to war, leaving her pregnant. When word arrives that he has been killed in action, his mother tries to wrest the child from his penniless widow, who struggles to manage her family and preserve her dignity.

After its 1867 London premiere, the play was presented frequently in both Britain and the United States.

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