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Dedication: This play is for Gillian, Heather, Barbara, Tara, John, Steven, Don, Michael, Tim, Chris, Patrick, Greg, Robert, John, Brett, Steven and Arabella.
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Epigraph: O! ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only tyranny, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her as a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fuguitive and prepare in time an asylum for mankind. Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 17776.
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Epigraph: Soon the enlightened nations will put on trial those who have hitherto ruled over them. The kings shall flee into the deserts, into the company of the wild beasts whom they resemble : and Nature shall resume her rights. Saint Just, 'Sur la Constitution de la France', Discours prononce a la Convention 24 Avril 1793.
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Liberty, tahat nightingale with the voice of a giant, rouses, the most profound sleepers ... How is it possible to think of anything today except to fight for or against freedom? Those who cannot love humanity can still be great as tyrants. But how can one be indifferent? Ludwig Boerne, 14 February, 1831.
Production Details
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First produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Playhouse Festival Centre, Adelaide, 3 March 1988.Directors: John Gaden and Michael Gow.
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Works about this Work
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Clio's Other Scroll : The re-writing of history in contemporary Australian drama
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Across the Lines : Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New Literatures in English 1998; (p. 237-248) -
Monumental Moments: Michael Gow's 1841, Stephen Sewell's Hate, Louis Nowra's Capricornia and Australia's Bicentenary
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 24 1994; (p. 29-45) -
"Shakespeare at the Beach" : Europa-Referenzen als Vehikel australischer Indentitaetssuche in den Dramen Michael Gows [References to Europe as a vehicle for the search of identity in Michael Gow's plays]
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australien zwischen Europa und Asien 1993; (p. 135-150) -
An Interview with Michael Gow
John M. Pearson
(interviewer),
1992
single work
interview
biography
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 52 no. 2 1992; (p. 116-131) - y Michael Gow's Plays : A Thematic Approach Sydney : Currency Press , 1991 Z98903 1991 single work criticism
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1841 Revisited
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 April vol. 110 no. 5616 1988; (p. 112)
— Review of 1841 1987 single work drama -
Epic Ends as Exercise in Tedium
1988
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 March vol. 110 no. 5611 1988; (p. 92)
— Review of 1841 1987 single work drama -
Untitled
1989-1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October/April no. 15-16 1989-1990; (p. 199-202)
— Review of Away 1986 single work drama ; 1841 1987 single work drama -
Creation and Clash 1841 : Australia's Bicentenary and the Critics
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Blast , Summer no. 8 1988-1989; (p. 22-25) - y Michael Gow's Plays : A Thematic Approach Sydney : Currency Press , 1991 Z98903 1991 single work criticism
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Reviewing the Reviewers : Thoughts on the Place of Criticism in the Theatre
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Summer no. 41 1989; (p. 44-47) -
Michael Gow Talks to May-Brit Akerholt
May-Brit Akerholt
(interviewer),
1988
single work
interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , [Double Issue] no. 12-13 1988; (p. 73-84) -
The Melodrama of Defeat: Political Patterns in Some Colonial and Contemporary Australian Plays
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 50 no. 2 1990; (p. 131-143) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 20)
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