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Issue Details: First known date: 1706... 1706 The Recruiting Officer
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Notes

  • First produced in London in 1706. Produced in Australia by convicts on 4 June 1789.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1706
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Methuen ,
      1988 .
      Extent: 96p.
      Description: illus., ports., facsim.
      ISBN: 0413196305

Works about this Work

Fiction and Fakements in Colonial Australia Jonathan Lamb , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Studies , September vol. 23 no. 3 2020; (p. 360-370)

'The imaginations of convicts in Australia became attuned to the pairing of opposites and this led to strange tensions in their way of representing things. On Norfolk Island the meanings of words were reversed, so that ‘good’ meant ‘bad’ and ‘ugly’ meant ‘beautiful’. This undermining of official meanings produced the argot called the ‘flash’ or ‘kiddy’ language of the colony. Designed at first to keep private sentiments from being inspected, it eventually supported a system of dissident actions called ‘cross-work’ or ‘cross doings’. One word loomed large amidst these inversions: ‘fakement’, meaning booty, forgery or deceit. The verb has more extensive meanings: rob, wound, shatter; ‘fake your slangs’ means break your shackles. It also meant performing a fiction and accepting the consequences of it.' (Publication abstract)

The Beginnings of Literature in Colonial Australia Elizabeth Webby , 2009 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Cambridge History of Australian Literature 2009; (p. 34-51)
This chapter traces 'the importation of books, the growth of libraries and literary societies, the beginnings of local publishing and the influence of educational institutions, including mechanics' institutes and universities.'
Tale of a Theatre Playbill Sylvia Marchant , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , December vol. 18 no. 3 2007; Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 46-47)
Sylvia Marchant tells how Australia's earliest printed document, a small theatre playbill printed in Sydney and dated 30 July 1796, came to be in the National Library's Collection.
Reviewing Australia's First Performance : The Recruiting Officer in Sydney 1789 Nathan Garvey , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 40 2002; (p. 26-57)
Consuming Theatre: Linguistic Colonialism in Thomas Keneally's "The Playmaker" Sally Dawson , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , December no. 4 1990; (p. 27-34)
Fellowship of Australian Writers Neil J. Myers , 1933 single work column
— Appears in: All About Books , 15 May vol. 5 no. 5 1933; (p. 78-79)
Myers reports on Dunbabin's paper "Literature and Whale Oil" and Gould's plans to stage The Recruiting Officer.
Fellowship of Australian Writers [Meeting Report] Neil J. Myers , 1933 single work column
— Appears in: All About Books , 10 June vol. 5 no. 6 1933; (p. 93)
The Adelaide Festival of Arts 1968 Yvonne Thomas , 1968 single work essay
— Appears in: North , no. 6 1968; (p. 23-25)
Tale of a Theatre Playbill Sylvia Marchant , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: National Library of Australia News , December vol. 18 no. 3 2007; Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 46-47)
Sylvia Marchant tells how Australia's earliest printed document, a small theatre playbill printed in Sydney and dated 30 July 1796, came to be in the National Library's Collection.
Our Early Drama 1931 single work essay
— Appears in: The Brisbane Courier , 19 September 1931; (p. 12)
The author discusses some of the early drama written, set, or performed in Australia.
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