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A Provincial Tragedian Abroad

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2009

Kathleen Barker
Kathleen Barker
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Kathleen Barker isJoint Hon. Secretary of the Society for Theatre Research.
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Extract

By the middle of the nineteenth century, it had become almost de rigueur for aspiring British entertainers to include at least one tour abroad in their career. Exchange – albeit initially a somewhat one-sided exchange – with North America dated back to the beginning of the century; as white settlement of Australasia developed, so from the third decade did theatre, and Gustavus Vaughan Brooke's success, particularly in Sydney, between 1855 and 1861, revealed a new opening for the more adventurous.

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Theatre Research International , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Spring 1986 , pp. 31 - 48
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Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1986

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Notes

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