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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 The Davenport Brothers Down Under : Theatre, Belief and Modernity in 1870s Australia
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Bellanta argues that the tours by spiritualist mediums Ira and William Davenport and stage magician Harry Keller (a.k.a. Kellar) "make it clear that theatre was a key forum in which Australians debated questions of belief" (p.171).

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