An Octoroon

Consider the casting and double casting as laid out in the text. How does this casting plan serve the play’s themes? What ideas of race does the playwright raise or interrogate through casting?

How does the playwright use metatheatricality? What effect does this have? Choose three examples of metatheatricality from the text and explain each.

Research Br’er Rabbit. What is his significance in the history of American culture? What does he represent in An Octoroon? Choose three instances in the play when Br’er Rabbit appears to analyze.