Throughout the British Empire, visiting and immigrating professional actors ‘from the old country’ realized and reinforced for settler cultures a dominant imperial identity. In Australia, Alfred Dampier (1843–1908) and his company exploited the opportunities that this cultural milieu offered by staging austere, ‘reverential’, well-elocuted Shakespearean productions which raised their artistic status and asserted their respectability while enabling Dampier to offer as well, without censorship or public condemnation, dramatizations of sensational and controversial bushranger and convict narratives.

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阿尔弗雷德丹皮尔的“莎士比亚星期五”

在整个大英帝国，“来自旧国家”的访问和移民专业演员为定居者文化实现并强化了占主导地位的帝国身份。在澳大利亚，阿尔弗雷德·丹皮尔 (Alfred Dampier) (1843-1908) 和他的公司利用这种文化环境所提供的机会，制作了朴素、“虔诚”、口才极佳的莎士比亚作品，这些作品提高了他们的艺术地位并维护了他们的尊重，同时也使丹皮尔能够提供，没有审查或公开谴责，耸人听闻和有争议的丛林游侠和定罪叙事的戏剧化。