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Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson

Pioneer Players: The Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson

Fitzpatrick, Peter

Paperback

Series: Lives of Louis and Hilda Esson

Entertainment & Performing ArtsLiterary CriticismPlays

Publisher Price: $48.99

ISBN10: 0521456444
ISBN13: 9780521456449
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 1 1995
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is a dual biography, the story of Louis Esson, the distinguished playwright who has been called 'the father of Australian drama', and his wife Hilda, who did her own pioneering in the theatre and in public health. The plays they wrote and performed reflected the drama of their lives: creative angst, intellectual conflict, untimely death, romantic entanglement, jealousy and despair. Yet Peter Fitzpatrick's book is more than a good read. As a critical appraisal of Louis Esson's plays and an exploration of the relationships the Essons had with well-known literary and theatrical figures in Australia and overseas, the book is an exploration of a developing Australian culture and identity. It is also about the dynamics of a marriage between two brilliant people, reflecting not only the patterns of gender relationships in their own time, but universal passions and strategies.

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