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Full Title: Our Country’s Good. When Published: Our Country’s Good premiered on September 10, 1988. Literary Period: Contemporary. Genre: Realism, Historical Theater. Setting: The British penal colonies in Sydney, Australia in 1788. Climax: Unable to overcome his guilt about having executed two men, Harry Brewer falls ill and dies.
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Our Country’s Good Summary. It is 1787, and a fleet of...
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On a convict ship bound for Australia in 1787, Second...
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In Our Country’s Good, a play about convicts and their...
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Spewed from our country, forgotten, bound to the dark edge...
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An aboriginal man who at various moments throughout the play...
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Public Hangings. In Our Country’s Good, the very idea of...
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At night? The sea cracks against the ship. Fear whispers,...
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A major in the Royal Marines, and one of the guards in the...
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Our Country’s Good Summary. It is 1787, and a fleet of British convict ships is bound for Australia, where Captain Arthur Phillip will become Governor of one of the region’s first penal colonies. Not long after the military officers and their prisoners arrive, Phillip discusses the merits of punishment with Judge Collins, Captain Tench, and ...
Our Country's Good is a 1988 play written by British playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, adapted from the Thomas Keneally novel The Playmaker. The story concerns a group of Royal Marines and convicts in a penal colony in New South Wales , in the 1780s, who put on a production of The Recruiting Officer .
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Sep 16, 2024 · A play, says Captain Arthur Phillip at one point in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good, is “the diagram in the sand that may remind”.That’s true in so many ways of this modern ...
Our Country's Good Analysis. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Written by Siciu Magdalena. The play begins with a gruesome image of a prisoner being beaten on the deck of a ship while a lieutenant stands aside and counts the blows ...
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Plot Summary. Our Country’s Good, by Timberlake Wertenbaker, is a play that begins in the hold of the vessel Sirius, a convict ship. The ship is on its way to Australia, where the British Empire notoriously shipped criminals to get them away from the British Isles. At the start of the play, convicts aboard the Sirius witness a flogging and ...
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Written by Ella Webster-Peal, SUHAIL Mohammed. Act 1, Scene 1. The play starts off with all the convicts and officers on their journey to Australia via ship which would have taken many months. Here we are introduced to the brutal and laborious nature of what the convicts are facing on a day to day basis. Scene 2.
