£SD explained

£SD
Setting:	Sydney
Premiere:	1882
Orig Lang:	English

£SD, or One of the Crowd is a 1882 Australian play by F. R. C. Hopkins.^{[1] [2]}

The play was set in Sydney and was produced by Alfred Dampier.^{[3] [4] [5]}

The play was based on the novel Mountjoie and was devised as a vehicle for Dampier. It was not as successful as other Dampier-Hoopkins collaborations. ^[6]

The Sydney Morning Herald said "Mr. Dampier has, for a wonder, a somewhat repellant part-that of a hard, unscrupulous man, who has risen to fortune by the suicide of a friend, whose ruin he has caused; but the power of his acting compels admiration, and is all the more manifest by reason of the evident difliculty: which anyone who plays such a part has in gaining the sympathy of an audience. "^[7]

Notes and References

1. News: Advertising . . 843 . New South Wales, Australia . 21 March 1882 . 3 May 2024 . 4 . National Library of Australia.
2. News: MUSIC AND DRAMA. . . 13,722 . New South Wales, Australia . 23 March 1882 . 3 May 2024 . 7 . National Library of Australia.
3. John Rickard, 'Hopkins, Francis Rawdon Chesney (1849–1916)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hopkins-francis-rawdon-chesney-505/text6001, published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 3 May 2024.
4. News: LATE MR. F. R. C. HOPKINS. . . 24,506 . New South Wales, Australia . 22 July 1916 . 3 May 2024 . 9 . National Library of Australia.
5. News: the Riverine Herald . . XIX . 3262 . Victoria, Australia . 8 February 1884 . 3 May 2024 . 2 . National Library of Australia.
6. Book: Rees, Leslie. Australian drama, 1970-1985 : a historical and critical survey. 33. 1987.
7. News: AMUSEMENTS. . . 13,720 . New South Wales, Australia . 21 March 1882 . 3 May 2024 . 6 . National Library of Australia.