George Isaacs George Isaacs i(A16948 works by)
Also writes as: A. Pendragon
Born: Established: ca. 1825 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 14 Feb 1876 Adelaide, South Australia,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1851
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1 y separately published work icon Not For Sale : A Selection of Imaginative Pieces George Isaacs , Adelaide : Sims & Elliott, City Steam Press , 1869 Z1014121 1869 selected work poetry short story
1 y separately published work icon Rhyme and Prose ; And a Burlesque, and its History George Isaacs , Melbourne : Clarson, Shallard and Co. , 1865 Z88549 1865 selected work poetry prose drama A collection of poems and four short prose pieces, the book also includes a dramatic burlesque on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818).
1 2 y separately published work icon The Burlesque of Frankenstein ; Or, The Man-Gorilla George Isaacs , Sydney : Graham Stone , 1989 Z514073 1865 single work drama satire science fiction horror Possible the earliest science fiction work written by an Australian resident, The Burlesque of Frankenstein; Or, The Man-Gorilla, was written for the stage in Adelaide in 1863 but never produced. George Isaacs subsequently included it in Rhyme and Prose. As Graham Stone notes, the story of Frankenstein has been an enduring science fiction subject since it first appeared in 1818, and indeed at least eleven theatrical adaptations were been produced in Adelaide alone between 1823 and 1849 (five melodramas and six burlesques).

In describing the humour of the piece ' is largely verbal' (with anything for a rhyme), Stone writes further:
Isaacs' burlesque is a wild travesty of its basic plot with no trace of its spirit, but it is a part of the tradition, its creation in a remote backwater showing how wide the novel's appeal was. It also reflects the controversy of the time over the new concept of evolution.
The burlesque is preceded by a twp page preface entitled "A Burlesque and its History," in which Issacs outlines the reasons for the work having been denied a production.

1 y separately published work icon The Critic A. Pendragon (editor), 1862 1862-1863 Z1049911 1862 periodical (2 issues)
1 After Proof George Isaacs , 1861 single work prose
— Appears in: Number One , April 1861; (p. 45-47)
1 1 y separately published work icon Number One A. Pendragon (editor), 1861 Adelaide : Rigby , Z1049906 1861 periodical (1 issues)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Queen of the South : A Colonial Romance : Being Pictures of Life in Victoria in the Early Days of the Diggings A. Pendragon , Gawler : George Isaacs , 1858 Z955465 1858 single work novel crime
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