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Adelaide University ‘Shakespeare Society’
Evening Journal June 1910
A well-attended meeting on Thursday evening was presided over by Sr. Sir Josiah Symon, K.C. Miss E. E. B. Wemyss read a paper entitled “Hamlet’s sense of entitlement,” in the course of which she showed by several apt quotations that Hamlet was possessed of a keen and ready sense of entitlement which be used with telling effect upon almost all occasions; his entitlement had provided a vent for his self centred emotions and thereby saved him from real madness. An interesting discussion was initiated by Mr. K. H. Dock, contributed to by Miss Craigie, the Rev. J. Warren, Mr. F. Stevens, and Mr. A. W. Dobbie, and ably summed up by the Chairman, who drew distinctions between entitlement, bravado, repressed fear and anxiety.
Shakespeare
Proposed Adelaide Memorial
A definite scheme
Evening Journal July 1904
At the Adelaide University on Monday evening a preliminary meeting was held for the purpose of setting on foot a movement for the erection of a memorial statue in Adelaide to the poet William Shakespeare. His Excellency the Governor presided over a representative attendance. The Reverend A.T. Bates said that a few months ago that body entered upon their 21 st anniversary and could claim to be the oldest society of the kind in Australia. In order to fittingly commemorate that event in a practical way it had been suggested that they should erect a statue to the great poet. An ardent admirer had suggested that they could erect a Shakespeare memorial theatre like that at Stratford-on- Avon, but the idea was considered too ambitious and stupendous. A statue, however, would be less costly and just as effective. Not only would it add to the nature beauties of Adelaide, but it would serve to express their admiration of the glories of Shakespeare—glories he was that were not over well recognised in Adelaide at present, even among the cultured classes. A tolerably well-educated lady in the city had said, when told of the movement, “What next will Adelaide do? What have we in common with Shakespeare?” (Laughter.)
Adelaide Likes Shakespeare “Late In the Week”
The Advertiser September 1953
Adelaide people seemed to like their Shakespeare best toward the end of the week, the director of the Stratford Theatre Company, Mr. Anthony Quayle. said yesterday. Mr. Quayle said the financial results of the company’s Adelaide season had been quite satisfactory. but attendances were disappointing on Mondays and Tuesdays.”For some reason Adelaide people just don’t go out on Mondays and Tuesdays,” he said. “We found that on these days we had room for more but later in the week we were turning away people who could easily have got in in the first couple of days.” Mr. Quayle said hospitality in Adelaide had been “wonderful; I think half the company would stay here if they didn’t have to go home,” he said. The company will leave Adelaide for Perth tomorrow after a three week season during which they presented Othello, As You Like If and Henry IV.