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y separately published work icon Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy single work   drama   - Verse play in one act
  • Author:agent Douglas Stewart http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/stewart-douglas
Issue Details: First known date: 1960... 1960 Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy
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Notes

  • Dedication: To David Campbell

Production Details

  • First produced by Sydney Theatre Club, 18 February 1961. Also Adelaide University Theatre Guild, March 1962.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: The Wentworth Press , 1960 .
      Extent: 42p.
      Edition info: Limited editon of 200.
      Description: illus., 4 leaves of plates.
      Reprinted: 1969
      Note/s:
      • Author's note: Fisher's Ghost is probably Australia's best-loved and most respectable phantom. It first appeared in 1826 and is said to reappear - for obscure reasons which this play attempts to explore - each year on the anniversary of its death. Since its history is fairly faithfully related in the course of the play, no further account of it should be necessary here. I must thank the trustees of the Mitchell Library, Sydney, for the opportunity to investigate it. The ballads in this play were first printed in The Bulletin.
      1960-1969 .
      Description: Typescript.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:
      • At Mitchell Library, NSL.
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Next Act! A Collection of Short Modern Plays Richard Beynon (editor), H. G. Fowler (editor), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964 Z510739 1964 anthology drama Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1964

Other Formats

Works about this Work

Douglas Stewart: Poet, Playwright and Critic Owen W. Reid , 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tasmanian Education , 15 November vol. 15 no. 1963; (p. 243-248)
Motif in the Work of Douglas Stewart Robert D. FitzGerald , 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Elements of Poetry 1963; (p. 25-50) Considerations : New Essays on Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and Douglas Stewart 1977; (p. 143-168)
Untitled Keith Macartney , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , December vol. 21 no. 4 1962; (p. 455-458)

— Review of Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy Douglas Stewart , 1960 single work drama
Fisher's Ghost Writer H. G. Kippax , 1961 single work review
— Appears in: Nation , 25 February 1961; (p. 22) A Leader of His Craft : Theatre Reviews by H. G. Kippax 2004; (p. 63-65)

— Review of Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy Douglas Stewart , 1960 single work drama
The Ghost Talks John Croyston , 1961 single work review
— Appears in: The Observer , 4 March vol. 4 no. 5 1961; (p. 20)

— Review of Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy Douglas Stewart , 1960 single work drama
Fisher's Ghost Writer H. G. Kippax , 1961 single work review
— Appears in: Nation , 25 February 1961; (p. 22) A Leader of His Craft : Theatre Reviews by H. G. Kippax 2004; (p. 63-65)

— Review of Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy Douglas Stewart , 1960 single work drama
Fisher's Ghost A. A. Phillips , 1960 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 26 October vol. 81 no. 4211 1960; (p. 74)

— Review of Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy Douglas Stewart , 1960 single work drama
Ghostly Lex Banning , 1960 single work review
— Appears in: The Observer , 29 October vol. 3 no. 22 1960; (p. 31-32)

— Review of Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy Douglas Stewart , 1960 single work drama
Untitled Keith Macartney , 1962 single work review
— Appears in: Meanjin Quarterly , December vol. 21 no. 4 1962; (p. 455-458)

— Review of Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy Douglas Stewart , 1960 single work drama
Ghosts M. A. , 1961 single work review
— Appears in: The Observer , 18 March vol. 4 no. 6 1961; (p. 27)

— Review of Fisher's Ghost : An Historical Comedy Douglas Stewart , 1960 single work drama
Douglas Stewart: Poet, Playwright and Critic Owen W. Reid , 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: Tasmanian Education , 15 November vol. 15 no. 1963; (p. 243-248)
A Note on "Fisher's Ghost" S. E. Lee , 1960 single work
— Appears in: Drylight (p. 58-59)
Motif in the Work of Douglas Stewart Robert D. FitzGerald , 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Elements of Poetry 1963; (p. 25-50) Considerations : New Essays on Kenneth Slessor, Judith Wright and Douglas Stewart 1977; (p. 143-168)
Last amended 4 Apr 2019 07:44:11
Subjects:
  • Bush,
  • Campbelltown, Campbelltown (NSW) area, MacArthur area (Camden - Campbelltown), Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1920
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