The Campbell Howard collection of Australian drama, 1920-1955 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 2776261
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Howard, Campbell, collector
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- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- 1920-1955
- 2.3 m.
- Summary:
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Typescript copies of unpublished Australian plays. Authors include: Allan Aldous, Ruth Bedford, John Le Gay Brereton, Dymphna Cusack, E. Coulson Davidson, Dulcie Deamer, Henrietta Drake-Brockman, Summer Locke Elliott, Louis Esson, James Glennon, Joan Harvey, Tom Judd, Llywelyn Lucas, Mac Luker, Ray Mathew, Furnley Maurice, Gwen Meredith, Gordon H. Mofatt, Musette Morell, K. E. Murray, Russell J. Oakes, John O'Grady, Vance Palmer, Ruth Park, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Leslie Rees, Betty M. Roland, Harry Tighe, Ric Throssell, Alexander Turner, Ted Willis and Eleanor Witcombe.
- Full contents:
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- Adamson, C.M.: Call it a date.
- Aldous, Allan: Enter the author: a fantasy ; The man with three hands ; Old Melbourne Town.
- Armstrong, Millicent Sylvia: Fire ; The moon sets ; Nina.
- Ashworth, Arthur, & Kelly, Philip: Ashes of roses.
- Atherton: Pitch and toss.
- Bedford, Ruth Marjory: Fear ; Murder next door? ; Postman's knock [aka The legacy].
- Bell, Harold G.: Died of wounds.
- Blewett, Dorothy: The first Joanna.
- Boyd, Susan: Heritage.
- Brand, Mona Alexis: Pavement oasis ; Flood tide ; Here under heaven ; No strings attached.
- Brereton, John Le Gay, Jr.: To-morrow.
- Campbell, John: The cell.
- Capern, Alwyn: Last summer.
- Carroll, Kathleen: Saturday.
- Clarke, Joan: Home brew.
- Clarke, Joan, & Meredith, John: The wild colonial boy: a musical drama.
- Crawford, Jim: Rocket range ; Welcome home.
- Cunnington, Charles Leslie: The Cudgewa outlaw.
- Cuthbertson, Alan: Death comes to Bogglesworth Manor, or, your coffin has come, Sir ; Kippers on the Wing.
- Cusack, Ellen Dymphna: Anniversary ; Eternal now ; Exit ; His honour comes to tea ; Pacific paradise ; Second rhapsody.
- Dann, George Landen: In beauty it is finished ; No incense rising.
- Darbyshire, A.W.L.: The Limited Dictatorship.
- Davidson, Mrs E. Coulson: The fight, by George Byfield ; The forerunners (in the reign of Victoria) ; Just Mum (aka The return) ; The moon child ; The reason ; Sorell ; The squall ; The star of Bethlehem: a pageant play ; The Widowhood of Suzanne ; "Winkle" intervenes.
- Davson, Win: The stars grow pale.
- Deamer, Dulcie: In the heart of a woman: a Christmas morality play ; In the mind of a child: a morality play ; In the soul of a man: a morality play ; The lucid interval ; The messenger ; Revaluation ; That by which men live ; Victory.
- Dibley, Arthur W.: Expatriate.
- Drake-Brockman, Henrietta Frances York (Jull): The destroyers ; The quick and the dead: an experiment.
- Duncan, Catherine: The sword sung.
- Elliott, Sumner Locke: The invisible circus.
- Esson, Louis: Australia felix: a dialogue ; Diggers' rest (The Battler) ; The quest: a dramatic legend ; Shipwreck ; Vagabond camp.
- Farwell, George: The house that Jack built ; Sons of the South.
- Flinn, H.M.: The Challenge
- Francis, Maurice: Present again ; They never come back.
- Giles, Margaret: Did you speak.
- Glennon, James: The anteroom ; Dream errant ; Without benefit of scenery (almost a melodrama).
- Gray, Oriel: Burst of summer ; Lawson; based on the poems and stories of Henry Lawson ; Sky without birds.
- Gunn, John: The raging of the sea.
- Hamilton, Katherine: The party man.
- Handley, Isobel: The mystery of Manfred Moon.
- Hanger, Eunice: Foundations ; Two D [2D] ; Flood.
- Hardy, Frank Joseph: Black diamond[s].
- Harvey, Joan: Light breaking through ; Looking for gold: a play of the depression ; Peace by the Derwent ; Where is your victory?
- Hastings, Hugh: Touch of the sun.
- Hill, Fitzmaurice: Nelson Expects ; Operation pumpkin ; Johnny Fawkner: apostle of freedom.
- Hiscocks, Betty: The spirit of desire.
- Jones, Doris Egerton: Governor Bligh: an historical comedy.
- Jones, Doris Egerton, & Polini, Emelie: The flaw.
- Judd, Tom: The carefree spiders: a comedy thriller ; Charlie came at 3 a.m. ; Life burns on ; The sand castle ; Something for nothing: a fairy tale for adults.
- Kenny, Colin: Overture to the dance.
- Leonov, Leonid Maksimovich: The ordinary man. Translated by Ric Throssell.
- Lucas, Beryl Llywelyn: The gum tree ; The sungod's secret; a play for Australian children ; Yeast.
- Lucas, Beryl Llywelyn, and Eyre, Hal: Apes and peacocks.
- Lucy, Mary Penelope: Chase the dream ; By wire: a mystery drama.
- Luker, Mac: Dutch courage; a comedy drama ; Heat wave in the West; a drama of the Western Plains ; The intruders; or Cuddley corners ; Judas was a gentleman ; Talk of the devil.
- Macintyre, Peggy G.: Our lady and the nun (from the mediaeval Dutch legend).
- Mcleod, Nora Marjorie: Horizons ; Mine a sad one ; A shillingsworth; an episode of the depression.
- Mann, Phillip Grenville: Over to Mother.
- Mansfield, Anthony: Dancers on a tight-rope.
- Mathew, Raymond Frank: The bones of my toe ; The boomerang [and the bantam] ; The life of the party ; The Medea of Euripides: a version ; A spring song ; We find the bunyip.
- Medlin, Brian: Governor Bligh.
- Meredith, Gwenyth Valmai: Ask no questions ; Cornerstone ; Mother moves: a radio sketch.
- Moffatt, Gordon H.: Overtime ; Taking the rap.
- Moore, Raymond Milton: Death and Mr. Makepeace.
- Morell, Musette: Beyond price ; His gentle art of making enemies.
- Murray, K.E.: A date to remember ; A message for Margaret ; The last review ; A pot of geraniums ; Theme song.
- Oakes, Russell J.: Carry on, sergeant ; Drowned valley ; The tree that chose itself ; The voice of Jerome Keddle ; Wool gathering.
- O’Grady, John: The valley.
- O’Grady, John, & Conroy, John: Mr. Slattersby.
- Palmer, Vance: Christine ; The fledgling ; A happy family ; Meadowsweet ; Prisoners' country.
- Park, Ruth, & Rees, Leslie Clarke: The harp in the south.
- Pearson, Margaret Mary: Press gang.
- Pooley, John: This was good-bye.
- Prichard, Katharine Susannah: The burglar ; Forward one ; Good morning ; The great man ; Women of Spain.
- Prince, Edna: First show.
- Roland, Betty M.: Don Quixote de la Mancha ; The gate of bronze: a fantasy.
- Shepherd, Catherine: It rains on the road.
- Shepherd, Martin: All the cobbler.
- Stone, Louis: The tap of the gods.
- Stone, Walter: Eyes that see ; Queen's bounty ; Red rations ; Sheridan's shanty ; The whip.
- Symons, Alex: Sigismond.
- Terry, J.E. Harold, & Tighe, Harry: Son of a -! [a.k.a. Insult] From the Dutch of Ian Fabricius.
- Throssell, Ric: Babes at arms ; The day before tomorrow ; Double feature ; Epitaph for the unborn ; If thy heart offend ; Legend ; Suburban requiem.
- Tighe, Harry: The canary waistcoat ; Intrigue ; Open spaces; or, Bush fire.
- Timms, C. Tapley: Captain Matthew Flinders.
- Turner, Alexander: Centurion.
- Tweedie, P.D.: Rhapsody.
- Vickers, Frederick Bert: Stained pieces.
- Wilkinson, Mary Elizabeth: The Lighthouse keeper's wife.
- Willis, Teo: The bells are ringing.
- Wilmot, Frank Leslie Thomson: Absalom: a monologue with interruptions ; A disturber of pools ; Revolution: a farce ; White ants ; White feather.
- Winter, Kitty: The toast is Anzac, gentlemen.
- Witcombe, Eleanor: Don't tell mother.
- Biography/History:
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Officer in the Department of Adult Education, University of New England. This collection duplicates the Campbell Howard Collection in the Dixson Library, University of New England, which includes scripts of Australian plays performed but not published, 1920-1955.
- Notes:
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- Typescript.
- Manuscript reference: NLA MS 718.
- Some plays available on microfilm at Mfm G 579-583, 6607-6609, 6612, 7691.
- Originals in possession of the authors, who also retain copyright.
- Cited In:
- Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia ; A616
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Name index held in National Library.
- The Campbell Howard annotated index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 / compiled and edited by Jack Bedson and Julian Croft. Armidale, N.S.W. : Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies, University of New England, 1993.
- Subject:
- Australian drama -- 20th century
- Time Coverage:
- 1920-1955
- Occupation:
- Dramatists
- Other authors/contributors:
- Campbell Howard Collection
- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1955
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