TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fotheringham,Richard
AU  - Turner,Angela
TI  - Australian plays for the colonial stage: 1834-1899 
SN  - 0702234877
U1  - A822.108 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - St. Lucia, Qld.
PB  - University of Queensland Press
KW  - Australian drama
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Musicals
KW  - Australia
N1  - Includes bibliography
N2  - Contains the scripts of nine colonial plays - including a scurrilous satire, a pioneering romance, plays about bushrangers and Ned Kelly, a city murder-mystery and the first Australian stage classic, adapted from Marcus Clarke's novel, For the Term of His Natural Life. Each script has been carefully edited or reconstructed from unique manuscripts or rare colonial printed editions, giving full respect to their historical forms and usages. The plays have been given generous historical and textual introductions and are supplemented with explanatory notes on the many people, places, events and stories referred to
ER  -