This is a study of the development of Australian drama and theatre over the last 50 years, in the context of past and current policy and practice in the professional theatre. Students are engaged upon course-work based on a representative selection of texts from the period and Australian plays in performance.
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24 Apr 1846 London, England
Playwright, journalist, author.
One of the most successful writers in Australia during the last half of the nineteenth century and author of His Natural Life, arguably the most famous Australian novel of that period, Marcus Clarke produced a prodigious amount of literary and journalistic writing in the fourteen years he spent in the country. His creative output involved more than 20 dramatic works, many of which were staged (one of these being an opera), five published novels, over 40 short stories (including children's stories), and three dozen or more works of prose and poetry. In addition to this he contributed countless newspaper and magazine articles and columns and was employed as an editor for several newspapers and publishers. Some of his work was also published under a variety of pseudonyms.
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