Title The Playmaker / Thomas Keneally

Published Sydney : Hodder & Stoughton, 1987 London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1987 1987

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	827.03 K335 A6/Pl		AVAILABLE

Description x, 310 pages ; 23 cm Summary Relationship with tribes, especially Cadigal, and settlement of First Fleet around 1789; violent conflict; capture, treatment and death of Arabanoo; small pox epidemic Analysis Fiction in English Australian writers, 1945- - Texts Notes Based on the staging of Farquhar's play, The recruiting officer, by the convicts of the penal settlement, Sydney Cove, 1789 Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection Subject Clark, Ralph, -1794 -- Fiction. Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707 -- Stage history -- Australia. Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707. The recruiting officer Great Britain. Royal Marines -- History -- 18th century -- Fiction. Australian fiction -- 20th century. Marines -- Fiction. Theater -- Fiction. SUBJECT New South Wales http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79033009 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 New South Wales -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001495 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Fiction. Author Farquhar, George, 1677?-1707. Recruiting officer. LC no. 87013127 ISBN 0340341548

Other Titles Recruiting Officer Play-maker

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