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Title: The FitzGerald Brothers' Circus: considering circus entertainments in late colonial New Zealand
Author/Creator: Arrighi, Gillian
Description: My study of the vibrant, internationalist, and prolific entertainments presented in New Zealand by the FitzGerald Brothers’ Circus in the years 1887-1904, from which this essay is derived, challenges the historic relegation of circus to the frontier settlements or to the periphery of colonial society. The FitzGeralds were part of a group of elite entertainment organizations that employed advanced marketing and management strategies to entrepreneur major tours of the colony in this period. This essay aims, in some measure, to reclaim the position circus entertainment acquired in the cultural fabric of late colonial life, and in the cultural imaginary of the public of New Zealand during this era.
Relation: The Turnbull Library Record Vol. 39, p. 47-60
Relation: http://www.turnbullfriends.org.nz/record.html
Date: 2006
Publisher: Friends of the Turnbull Library
Keyword(s): FitzGerald Brothers' Circus; circus history; performing arts; New Zealand
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/40562
Identifier: ISSN:0110-1625
Language: eng

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