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Melodrama.
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Shirley Brooks's The Creole is included in AustLit because it was produced in Australian theatres during the colonial era.
Production Details
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First produced at the Lyceum Theatre, London, 8 April 1847. (Source: Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.)
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Performed at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Melbourne, May 1868.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Theatre, &c.
1868
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australasian , 30 May vol. 4 no. 113 (New Series) 1868; (p. 690)
— Review of Not a Bad Judge 1848 single work drama ; The Iron Chest 1796 single work drama ; Paris the Prince and Helen the Fair ; Or, The Giant Horse and the Siege of Troy 1868 single work musical theatre ; Asmodeus, the Little Demon; Or, The Devil's Share 1843 single work drama ; The Creole; Or, Love's Letters 1847 single work dramaA review of the performances of James Robinson Planche's Not a Bad Judge, George Colman's The Iron Chest and W. M. Akhurst's The Siege of Troy at the Theatre Royal Melbourne, and of Thomas Archer's Asmodeus and Shirley Brooks's The Creole at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, May 1868
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The Theatre, &c.
1868
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australasian , 30 May vol. 4 no. 113 (New Series) 1868; (p. 690)
— Review of Not a Bad Judge 1848 single work drama ; The Iron Chest 1796 single work drama ; Paris the Prince and Helen the Fair ; Or, The Giant Horse and the Siege of Troy 1868 single work musical theatre ; Asmodeus, the Little Demon; Or, The Devil's Share 1843 single work drama ; The Creole; Or, Love's Letters 1847 single work dramaA review of the performances of James Robinson Planche's Not a Bad Judge, George Colman's The Iron Chest and W. M. Akhurst's The Siege of Troy at the Theatre Royal Melbourne, and of Thomas Archer's Asmodeus and Shirley Brooks's The Creole at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, May 1868
