The Australian Stage: A Documentary History: Edited by Harold Love

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The Australian Stage: A Documentary History: Edited by Harold LoveThe story of the Australian theatre began inn 1789 when a group of First Fleet convicts mounted a production of George Farquhar military comedy, The Recruiting Officer. Starting from this bizarre performance, this volume chronicles the history of the Australian stage to the 1980s (some of it hardly less bizarre) told in the vivid language of the performers' contemporaries and supported by ten essays by leading theatre historians. From Shakespeare to

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