Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage, 1834-1899 - 9780702234880
Un libro in lingua di Fotheringham Richard (EDT) Turner Angela (EDT) edito da Paul & Co Pub Consortium, 2006
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From the mid-1830s until the end of the nineteenth century hundreds of plays were written and staged in the Australian colonies. The first known of these, Henry Melville's The Bushrangers, was performed by a mixed amateur and professional cast at Hobart's Argyle Assembly Rooms on 29 May 1834. By the end of the century at least six professional theatre companies were giving hundreds of performances of versions of The Kelly Gang to popular acclaim throughout the length and breadth of Australia.This Academy Edition presents the scripts of nine colonial plays, one of them in two versions. Beginning with Melville's short melodrama and ending with the best known of the Kelly Gang plays, first staged in 1899 in Sydney, the volume also contains a scurrilous satire Life in Sydney (1843), a pioneering romance Arabin; or, The Adventures of a Settler (1849), a short choral 'masque' The South-Sea Sisters (1866), a proto-nationalistic pantomime in Melbourne and Sydney versions The House that Jack Built (1869 and 1871), a city murder-mystery Hazard (1872), a comic-horror saga of a bush heroine For £60,000 (1874) and the first Australian stage classic, adapted in 1886 from Marcus Clarke's novel, For the Term of His Natural Life.
- Comprehensive general introduction
- Each play has been given generous historical and textual introductions and is supplemented with explanatory notes on the many people, places, events and stories referred to
- Appendix containing nearly sixty pages of music for the songs and tunes used in four of the productions
- Contains over 50 illustrations
- Special hardback volume with quality sewn bindings, decorative head and tail bands with coloured and gold foil blocking, and an attractive dust cover jacket
- Four of the plays have never before been published and the other five are copied from rare nineteenth century editions that are difficult-to-access
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage, 1834-1899
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Fotheringham Richard (EDT) Turner Angela (EDT)
- Editore: Paul & Co Pub Consortium
- Collana: Paul & Co Pub Consortium (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Febbraio '06
- Genere: DRAMA
- Argomenti : Australian drama 19th century Musicals Australia
- Pagine: 732
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 139 x 63
- ISBN-10: 0702234885
- EAN-13: 9780702234880