Monday, 19 January 2009
The Annual General Meeting
of the JSA on October 4, was the first to be held following the incorporation
of the Society. The committee and office bearers, constituted
according to the incorporation rules, were unanimously elected:
President: John Wiltshire
Vice-President: Clive
Probyn
Treasurer: Barrie Sheppard
Secretary: Barbara Niven
Committee: Bryan Reid,
Bronwen Hickman.
The two other members of the
pre-incorporation committee, Denis Le Neuf and Paul Tankard, have been
asked to become ex-officio members. A splendid examination of 18th
Century London theatre “An Ornament of the Metropolis'? Eighteenth-Century
Attitudes to the Theatre” was delivered before the AGM by Ann
Blake an Honorary Associate of La Trobe University, Melbourne, enthralling
a small, but highly appreciative audience.
Ann Blake has published articles
on Shakespeare and other dramatists, on crime fiction and on Christina
Stead. She is the author of Christina Stead's Politics of Place
(University of Western Australia Press, 1999) and co-author of England
through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Palgrave, 2001).
Her latest publications are new editions of Sheridan's The School
for Scandal and Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem for the New
Mermaid series. |
