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Issue Details: First known date: 1987... 1987 1841
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Notes

  • Dedication: This play is for Gillian, Heather, Barbara, Tara, John, Steven, Don, Michael, Tim, Chris, Patrick, Greg, Robert, John, Brett, Steven and Arabella.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • First produced by the State Theatre Company of South Australia, Playhouse Festival Centre, Adelaide, 3 March 1988.Directors: John Gaden and Michael Gow.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

      1987 .
      Extent: [2], 72 leavesp.
      Description: Typescript (photocopy).
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • Stage play in 21 scenes.

      Holdings

      Held at: University of Queensland University of Queensland Library Fryer Library
      Local Id: H0678
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Adelaide, South Australia,: Currency Press ; State Theatre Company of South Australia , 1988 .
      Extent: 65p.
      Description: illus: ports.
      ISBN: 0868191957
      Series: Current Theatre Series Currency Press (publisher), 1983- series - publisher 'Current Theatre Series consists of Australian plays published with the program inserted and sold during theatre seasons. The aim of the series is to promote and encourage new dramatic writing and make it accessible to theatregoers and the public. The text is presented at the first day of rehearsal and does not contain changes which the author may choose to make after the play has commenced its present season - these will be incorporated into any new edition published by Currency.' Currency Press.
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Works about this Work

Clio's Other Scroll : The re-writing of history in contemporary Australian drama Norbert Schaffeld , 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 Helen Gilbert , 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] Norbert Schaffeld , 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 separately published work icon Michael Gow's Plays : A Thematic Approach Luke Icarus Simon , Sydney : Currency Press , 1991 Z98903 1991 single work criticism
1841 Revisited Brian Hoad , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 April vol. 110 no. 5616 1988; (p. 112)
— Review of 1841 Michael Gow , 1987 single work drama
Epic Ends as Exercise in Tedium Brian Hoad , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 15 March vol. 110 no. 5611 1988; (p. 92)
— Review of 1841 Michael Gow , 1987 single work drama
Untitled John McCallum , 1989-1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October/April no. 15-16 1989-1990; (p. 199-202)
— Review of Away Michael Gow , 1986 single work drama ; 1841 Michael Gow , 1987 single work drama
Creation and Clash 1841 : Australia's Bicentenary and the Critics Jeremy Eccles , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Blast , Summer no. 8 1988-1989; (p. 22-25)
y separately published work icon Michael Gow's Plays : A Thematic Approach Luke Icarus Simon , Sydney : Currency Press , 1991 Z98903 1991 single work criticism
Reviewing the Reviewers : Thoughts on the Place of Criticism in the Theatre Murray Bramwell , 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 Veronica Kelly , 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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Subjects:
  • New South Wales,
Settings:
  • 1840s
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