Hazard; or, Pearce Dyceton's Crime

Hazard; or, Pearce Dyceton's Crime is a 1872 Australian stage play by Walter Cooper.

Hazard; or, Pearce Dyceton's Crime
Written byWalter H. Cooper
Date premiered15 July 1872[1]
Place premieredVictoria Theatre, Sydney[2]
Original languageEnglish
SettingSydney

Academic Richard Fotheringham said the characters of Rawes "is an example of a stock figure in a number of later Australian plays: polite, effete and very British, good-hearted but ignorant of and unsuited to rough living conditions."[3]

Reception

The Sydney Morning Herald said " the story is eminently dramatic, the dialogue sparkling, the situatious good, and the o in-trusts of character clear and decided, without bßing over drawn."[4]

The Sydney Mail said "It is hardly to be commended that the legitimate drama should be put aside for pieces so murderously sensational."[5]

The Evening News said it was "the best piece" from the author.[6]

The play was produced on stage in the USA.

The play was revived in Australia in 1875.[7]

References
  1. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. LXVI, no. 10, 653. New South Wales, Australia. 10 July 1872. p. 10. Retrieved 5 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. LXVI, no. 10, 671. New South Wales, Australia. 31 July 1872. p. 12. Retrieved 5 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. Fotheringham, Richard (2006). Australian plays for the colonial stage : 1834-1899. p. 321.
  4. "The Sydney Morning Herald". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. LXVI, no. 10, 658. New South Wales, Australia. 16 July 1872. p. 4. Retrieved 5 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Theatrical and Amusements". The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser. Vol. XIV, no. 629. New South Wales, Australia. 20 July 1872. p. 77. Retrieved 5 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "NEWS OF THE DAY". Evening News. No. 1552. New South Wales, Australia. 22 July 1872. p. 2. Retrieved 5 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. "Advertising". The Sydney Morning Herald. Vol. LXXII, no. 11, 626. New South Wales, Australia. 24 August 1875. p. 10. Retrieved 5 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
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