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Issue Details: First known date: 1920-1955... 1920-1955 The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript
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  • Excerpt from the introduction to the Index:

    The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript housed in the Dixson Library at the University of New England represents a unique body of research material concerning Australian drama of the period 1920-1955. It contains some three hundred plays in manuscript or typescript together with published plays, theatre programmes, and correspondence and research files. [...] Major writers such as Katharine Susannah Prichard, Dymphna Cusack, Vance Palmer, Louis Esson, Ruth Park and Patrick White are represented.

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y separately published work icon The Mystery of Manfred Moon Isabel Handley , 1932 8500307 1932 single work drama humour

Described in newspapers as a 'short but horrific melodrama in rhyme', The Mystery of Manfred Moon was a 'satire upon the old-time melodrama when the heroine was without spot, and the villain without a redeeming feature'. (See 'Little Theatre Company', Table Talk, 9 June 1932, p.41.)

The Mystery of Manfred Moon was one of Handley's more successful plays, and was performed intermittently until at least 1946.

 1932
form y separately published work icon The Quick and the Dead : An Experiment Henrietta Drake-Brockman , 1940-1949 Z851078 1940 single work radio play 1940-1949

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First known date: 1920-1955
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Housed in Dixson Library at the University of New England
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Related Works

y separately published work icon The Campbell Howard Annotated Index of Australian Plays 1920-1955 Jack Bedson (editor), Julian Croft (editor), Armidale : University of New England. Centre for Australian Language and Literature Studies , 1993 Z512390 1993 single work bibliography
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Works about this Work

Rattling the Manacles : Genre and Nationalism in the Neglected Plays of the Campbell Howard Collection, 1920-1955 John McCallum , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: 'Unemployed at Last!' : Essays on Australian Literature to 2002 for Julian Croft 2002; (p. 86-104) McCallum draws attention to a number of neglected plays of the 1920s-1950s in the Howard Collection and discusses the reasons why they were neglected unlike, for instance, the plays of Louis Esson. He argues that many of the best Campbell Howard plays didn't fit into the standard history of Australian drama. However, many skillful and professional playwrights whose scripts Howard collected were trying to write for the commercial theatre, and, a nationalist theatre lacking, wrote genre plays, "mostly realistic melodramas, thrillers and drawing room comedies" - the truly neglected Australian plays. Focussing on the sub-genres of bush realist melodrama, station dramas, family sagas, and country town comedies and dramas, McCallum's essay looks at a number of these plays, and at the interaction between genre and the goals of the nationalists.
The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript Margaret Maticka , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Drama 1920-1955 : Papers Presented to a Conference at the University of New England, Armidale, September 1-4, 1984 1986; (p. 115-124)
Some Louis Esson Manuscripts J. D. Hainsworth , 1983 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 43 no. 3 1983; (p. 347-357)
The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays Winifred R. Richardson , J. S. Ryan , 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Armidale & District Historical Society Journal & Proceedings , no. 20 1977; (p. 106-111)
y separately published work icon Australian Plays in Manuscript Sheila M. Apted , Armidale : University of New England , 1968 Z242311 1968 single work bibliography
Rattling the Manacles : Genre and Nationalism in the Neglected Plays of the Campbell Howard Collection, 1920-1955 John McCallum , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: 'Unemployed at Last!' : Essays on Australian Literature to 2002 for Julian Croft 2002; (p. 86-104) McCallum draws attention to a number of neglected plays of the 1920s-1950s in the Howard Collection and discusses the reasons why they were neglected unlike, for instance, the plays of Louis Esson. He argues that many of the best Campbell Howard plays didn't fit into the standard history of Australian drama. However, many skillful and professional playwrights whose scripts Howard collected were trying to write for the commercial theatre, and, a nationalist theatre lacking, wrote genre plays, "mostly realistic melodramas, thrillers and drawing room comedies" - the truly neglected Australian plays. Focussing on the sub-genres of bush realist melodrama, station dramas, family sagas, and country town comedies and dramas, McCallum's essay looks at a number of these plays, and at the interaction between genre and the goals of the nationalists.
The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays Winifred R. Richardson , J. S. Ryan , 1977 single work criticism
— Appears in: Armidale & District Historical Society Journal & Proceedings , no. 20 1977; (p. 106-111)
y separately published work icon Australian Plays in Manuscript Sheila M. Apted , Armidale : University of New England , 1968 Z242311 1968 single work bibliography
Some Louis Esson Manuscripts J. D. Hainsworth , 1983 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , September vol. 43 no. 3 1983; (p. 347-357)
The Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays in Manuscript Margaret Maticka , 1986 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Drama 1920-1955 : Papers Presented to a Conference at the University of New England, Armidale, September 1-4, 1984 1986; (p. 115-124)
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