| Description |
ix, 230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Australian playwrights ; 9 |
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Australian playwrights ; 9
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| Contents |
Introduction / Susan Bradley Smith and Elizabeth Schafer -- 1. Millennial blues: racism, nationalism and the legacy of empire / Helen Gilbert -- 2. 'A new untravelled region in herself: women's school plays in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia / Susan Croft -- 3. Sightlines and bloodlines: the influence of British theatre on Australia in the post-1945 era / Julian Meyrick -- 4. Reconciliation Shakespeare? Aboriginal presence in Australian Shakespeare production / Elizabeth Schafer -- 5. 'The Australian Marvels': wire-walkers Ella Zuila and George Loyal, and geographies of circus gender body identity / Peta Tait -- 6. When is an Australian playwright not an Australian playwright? The case of May Holt / Katherine Newey -- 7. A tale of two Australians: Haddon Chambers, Gilbert Murray and the imperial London stage / Elizabeth Schafer -- 8. Inez Bensusan, suffrage theatre's nice colonial girl / Susan Bradley Smith -- 9. Cricket and theatre: Australians observed / Michael Billington -- 10. What price a global culture? (or can you hope to clone a Tap Dog?) / Richard Cave -- 11. International fault-lines: directions in contemporary Australian performance and the new millennium / Margaret Hamilton -- 12. Rhetoric, reconciliation and other national pastimes: showcasing contemporary Australian theatre in London / Susan Bradley Smith -- 13. Playing Australia in the theatre: an interview with Cate Blanchett |
| Notes |
Series editor: Veronica Kelly |
| Bibliography |
Includes index and bibliographical references |
| Credits |
Series editor: Veronica Kelly |
| Subject |
Australian drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Theater -- Australia.
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Australian drama -- History and criticism.
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Theater -- Australia -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101694
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Schafer, Elizabeth.
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Bradley Smith, Susan.
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| LC no. |
00002521 |
| ISBN |
9042008172 |
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