Colonial Experience: English Comedians in Australia in the Nineteenth Century

Abstract:

HROUGHOUT the nineteenth century Australia was plagued or blessed, according to one's point ofview, with a succession ofvisiting artists from England and America. Some of these visitors were undeniably awful; others, like GV Brooke or Barry Sullivan, achieved a following in the colonies much greater than that which they enjoyed on home territory; yet others, such as Charles Kean and his wife, saw the colonies as a means of bolstering their income towards the end of their lives, when their former powers were in abeyance. Apart from Charles Kean, however, no English tragedian of major status visited Australia. Macready, Phelps, Irving never graced the shores of the Antipodes—in Irving's case partly on account of the enormous costentailed in transporting his productions abroad. On the other hand, Australia was visited in the later part of the century by two of England's leading comedians: in 1870–71, by Charles …

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1988

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