Drama
Articles
- Inner Voices and the First Coil
How difficult to write this lecture has proved to be. You would think it would be easy to talk about something you have written, but it's not so. I doubt whether any author can talk sensibly about his own work…
1 October 1979 - Translating for the Australian Stage (A Personal Viewpoint)1 May 1982
- Review of Siting the Other: Re-visions of Marginality in Australian and Anglophone Canadian Drama, edited by Marc Maufort.
Marc Maufort introduces this book as a 'sequel' to his earlier collection of essays, Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama (Peter Lang, 1995). Just recently, he published another meaty critical anthology (co-edited with Franca Bellarsi), Crucible of…
1 October 2002 - Charles Reade, Wilkie Collins, and Marcus Clarke1 May 1984
- Transforming Jane Eyre: Its Australian Stage Adaptations
The history of Australian stage adaptations of Jane Eyre illustrates the shifting fortunes and reach of melodrama and its conventions, as they become psychologised over the course of the twentieth century. The earliest adaptation of Jane Eyre written for the…
31 October 2015 - ‘Living in Sin’: Money and Morals in ‘Virtue’, a Play by Stella Miles Franklin
This paper revives Stella Miles Franklin’s 1917 play, ‘Virtue’, a long-forgotten protest drama about economic servitude, sexual desire, and the perils of prostitution. I discuss the ways Franklin uses ‘Virtue’ to first, protest the perils of female economic vulnerability that…
16 November 2016