Australian Drama (Critical Survey of Drama)
Overview
Although the beginnings of an identifiably Australian drama can be discerned in plays written during the 1930’s, it was not until about 1960 that plays of lasting or literary merit were frequently printed or performed. For convenience, Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (pr. 1955) is often regarded as the precursor of modern Australian drama, yet in 1956, A. D. Hope, in a Current Affairs Bulletin article,...
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