AUSTRALIS
PROJECT:
SOURCES ON 19TH CENTURY AUSTRALIAN THEATRE
The
taste of the age had become eminently pictorial and exacting beyond all former
precedent.
- Michael Booth, Victorian Spectacular Theatre
General
Australian
Federation
Australian
theatre in the 19th century
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Christopher.
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Leacroft,
Richard.
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Leacroft,
Richard.
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stage machinery.
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Iain. The
Georgian playhouse: actors, artists, audiences and architecture 1730-1830.
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Moynet,
M.J. French
theatrical production in the nineteenth century; translated by Allan S Jackson
with M. Glen Wilson. New York, The Max Reinhardt Foundation with the Center
for Modern Theatre Research , 1976. According to Booth, documents the exact
operation of specific production and stage machinery and, although he writes
of Paris theatres, much of what he says is also applicable to the English
stage.
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James. Victorian
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Richard.
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Wise,
B.R. The struggle for Union: episodes in the movement for Australian
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All
the world’s a stage:
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Margaret Williams, Glynne Wickham and George Rowell. [Sydney]: [Sydney Opera
House Trust], 1973.
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The
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E D A. Coppin the great, father of the Australian theatre.
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Bradshaw,
Richard. The
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Dicker,
I G. JCW:
a short biography of James Cassius Williamson.
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Downes,
Peter.
Australis or the City of Zero: chapter 22 from book on the Pollard Opera
Company [unpublished].
Downes,
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Dreyfus,
Kay. Reinventing
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Garlick,
Barbara:
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Hall,
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Hughes,
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Irvin,
Eric.
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Irvin,
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melodrama: eighty years of popular theatre.
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E. Gentleman
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Theatre
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Visualising the Sydney Theatre, 1796. Australasian Drama Studies 28 (April
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Kelly,
Veronica.
The banning of Marcus Clarke’s The Happy Land: stage, press and parliament.
Australasian Drama Studies Vol 2 no 1 (October 1983): 71-112.
Keneally, Thomas. The
Playmaker. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1987. A fictional account of the
staging of The Recruiting Officer, the first play performed in Australia in
1789.
Love,
Harold.
Chinese theatre on the Victorian goldfields, 1858-1870. Australasian Drama
Studies Vol 3 no 2 (April 1985): 47-86,
Love,
Harold.
W.S. Lyster’s 1861-68 opera company: season & repertoire. Australasian
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Porter,
Hal.
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Richardson,
Paul.
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Stewart,
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Peter. Australian
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arrival of cinema. Sydney,
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Margaret.
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acts. Melbourne, Oxford
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Williams,
Margaret.
The Barnum of Australia: William Anderson. Australasian Drama Studies (April
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