Issue Details: First known date: 1986... 1986 Australian Drama 1920-1955 : Papers Presented to a Conference at the University of New England, Armidale, September 1-4, 1984
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Armidale, Armidale area, New England, New South Wales,:University of New England. Dept. of Continuing Education , 1986 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Writer's Thirty-Six Years in Radical Theatre : New Theatre's Formative Years 1932-1955 and Their Influence on Australian Drama, Mona Brand , single work criticism (p. 1-8)
A Writer's Thirty-Six Years in Radical Theatre : Perspectives on Mona Brand's Isolation from Mainstream Australian Theatre, Christine M. Tilley , single work criticism (p. 9-16)
Oriel Gray : A Forgotten Playwright, Angela Hillel , single work criticism (p. 17-27)
Paths Towards Purpose : The Political Plays of Katharine Susannah Prichard and Ric Throssell, Ric Throssell , single work criticism (p. 28-38)
"Something with a Cow in It" : Louis Esson's Imported Nationalism, John McCallum , single work criticism
McCallum argues that Esson's attempts to translate the folk dramas of Ireland to an Australian context failed because of the absence of a similar folk background.
(p. 39-52)
Aspects of the Heroic in Australia Verse Drama : Douglas Stewart, Tom Ingles Moore and Catherine Duncan, Elizabeth Perkins , single work criticism (p. 53-70)
Forgotten Poetic Sensibilities : The Plays of Charles Jury and Ray Mathew, J. S. Ryan , single work criticism biography (p. 71-88)
Sports Lovers and Sports Haters : Attitudes to Sport in Some Australian Plays, Richard Fotheringham , single work criticism (p. 89-98)
The Australian Playwright in the Commercial Theatre : 1914-1939, Pamela Payne-Heckenberg , single work criticism (p. 99-110)
The Australian Drama Bibliography Project, Alrene Sykes , single work criticism (p. 111-114)
The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript, Margaret Maticka , single work criticism (p. 115-124)
Shipwreck : A Drama in Four Acts, Louis Esson , single work drama

'The play is set on the lonely Gippsland coast in the late 19th century. Stumpy Johnson lives by the old Cornish trick of luring ships to destruction and collecting and selling the flotsam and jetsam. Martha Kennedy forces her daughter Madge to become Johnson’s second wife. The police catch up with Johnson and he goes to gaol. During his absence his son by his first marriage and Madge fall in love and live together. A child is born. Johnson is released before his full sentence is served, returns and in his vengence kills the baby, shoots his son and chains Madge to the wall of the house. He whips the bullocks with a barb wire lash which flies back and tears his eyes, the bullocks stampede and rush over him and he staggers back to the house, but of course Madge cannot help him, and wouldn't. He dies and Madge is rescued by a passing coastal vessel which calls in, and Johnson’s corpse is taken on board to be tipped over the side when the vessel is at sea.' (Source : University of New England website)

(p. 125-155)

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