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Theatre-maker Margaret Cameron's work has had a sporadic publishing history. Scripts for Knowledge and Melancholy and The Proscenium appeared in Alison Croggon's now defunct online journal Masthead 2002, 2006). Bang! A Critical Fiction was included alongside Knowledge and Melancholy in the play collection Inside 01 (Currency, 2001), while Things Calypso Wanted to Say features in Performing the Unnameable (Currency, 1999). In 2012, Cameron contextualised the scripts of Opera for a Small Mammal , The Proscenium, Bang! and Knowledge and Melancholy with a poetic exegesis in fulfillment of her doctorate at Victoria University. The Text is available online. The current book shares the title of this thesis, of which it is a slightly modified version. Cameron died in 2014, so the online thesis and the book are very similar. It is however, unfortunate that more posthumous editorial intervention was not deployed. The 'new' publication is really only for those who would rather have a book that a download.