Australian Stage Comedians 1915-1930: Configuring a Comic National Identity

该项目旨在通过研究经常被描述为独特的澳大利亚幽默感的起源，为澳大利亚文化史做出重大贡献。 而这种民族特征的元素出现在殖民时代，包括强调坚忍，自嘲和存在的矛盾（例如，在斯蒂尔·拉德和亨利·劳森的故事中），这个项目将提高社区对第一次世界大战期间和之后的舞台喜剧演员如何将这些倾向集中在日常经验的喜剧上的认识，以及在逆境中保持坚强的乐观态度。

This project aims to make a major contribution to Australian cultural history by examining the origins of what has often been described as the distinctive Australian sense of humour. While elements of this national characteristic emerged in colonial times, including an emphasis on stoicism, self-deprecation and the contradictions of existence (e.g. in Steele Rudd's and Henry Lawson's stories), this project will increase community awareness of how stage comedians during and after the First World War focused these tendencies into a distinctive emphasis on the comedy of everyday experience, and on maintaining a tough-minded optimism in adversity.