By Kathleen Kuiper
Shakespeare's reward for writing tragedies used to be strong certainly. His skill to create epic tragic characters—think Hamlet, Lear, and the star-crossed Romeo and Juliet—and eventualities is almost unrivalled. Readers learn the Bard's significant tragedies and their importance, and comment on the nation of theatre and dramatic functionality in Shakespeare's England for strong degree.
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Moreover, when a woman was pregnant for the first time in her mid-thirties as Grace was, people talked darkly about ‘complications’. She needed to be somewhere safer, and more secure. She needed to go home. The only reasonable course of action was to take her back to Edith Street, where she could have her baby in the bosom of an over-protective family, snug in her own little bed. Frank, meanwhile, would return to Melbourne, to make his – their – way. That was the plan, and it seemed sensible enough; Adelaide was a small stage for a man of his abilities, and with his interests in the very newest in entertainment.
1. Margaret Blacker, in her privately published family history Things About Thrings: An Anthology of the Thring Family Tree, 1849–1985, Millicent, South Australia, 1985, repeats this claim verbatim. – 23 – The t wo fr a nk thr ings On the face of it, there should have been plenty to keep an ambitious boy in Wentworth in the late 1890s. The town had prospered, certainly, since William and Elizabeth had sold the Thrings’ pub in Middleton in the year Frank’s father was disreputably born, and made their trek up the river and into the back of beyond.
He dismissed them even more comprehensively, if less luridly, than his son would do decades later in relation to Frank himself and Olive. • By one route or another, Frank arrived on Boxing Day 1904 at the altar of St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Gawler, a bustling little town in the Barossa Valley, about twenty-five miles from Adelaide. It was a few weeks after his twenty-second birthday, but perhaps out of some consideration for the fact that his bride was a little older than he, or perhaps to add a little more maturity to his claims as a suitor, he declared himself on Boxing Day 1904 as twenty-seven.