The convict theatres of early Australia 1788-1840 / Robert Jordan
- Bib ID:
- 614204
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jordan, Robert
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- Description:
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- Sydney : Currency House Inc., 2002
- xiii, 369 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0958121303
- 4120013898
- Summary:
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The first 40 years of European theatre in Australia have never until now been the subject of intensive inquiry. The author brings to life the shadowy figures that created the colony's first entertainment. These theatres were actually the initiative of the convicts, and turned into a huge social battleground against authority.
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- Acknowledgments
- Preliminary Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Britons Abroad: The Early Convicts
- and Their Theatrical Background
- Chapter 2 Theatre in Sydney to 1809:
- A Chronological Account
- Chapter 3 The Sydney Theatre, 1796-1804/07:
- The Playhouse and Company Organisation
- Chapter 4 The Sydney Theatre, 1796-1804/07:
- Actors, Audiences and Others
- Chapter 5 The Theatres of Norfolk Island, 1793-1806
- Chapter 6 Convict Theatre, 1807-1830
- Chapter 7 'Gallant Captains': Hyndman, Maconochie
- and the Fading of Convict Theatre
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Dramatis personae: performers and others
- associated with the theatres, 1794-1800
- Appendix B Longer notes to Chapters 1-7
- Appendix C Recorded productions at Robert Sidaway's
- theatre, Sydney, and at Emu Plains
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Subscribers.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Bibliography: p. 333-350.
- Text in japanese.
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