Emeritus Professor Richard Fotheringham

Emeritus Professor

School of Communication and Arts
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Overview

Professor Richard Fotheringham’s research interests include Australian drama, Australian performing arts policy, English Renaissance staging, textual criticism, and Australian stage comedy.

His current research includes editing early Australian plays, Australian stage comedy 1915-1930, and staging Shakespeare in Australia.

Professor Fotheringham is the author of:

  • Sport in Australian Drama, Cambridge University Press.
  • In Search of Steele Rudd, Uni. of Queensland Press.
  • Articles on Australian drama, performing arts policy, Renaissance staging, and theory of editing.

Editor of:

  • Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899 (Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2006).
  • Community Theatre in Australia, Methuen, 1987, Currency 1992.
  • Dampier and Walch's stage version of Robbery Under Arms.

Qualifications

  • Academy of Humanities, Academy of Humanities
  • Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
  • Masters (Coursework), The University of Queensland
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, The University of Queensland

Publications

  • Fotheringham, Richard (2020). May Holt’s Waiting Consent. Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 47 (2), 174837272092577-155. doi: 10.1177/1748372720925771

  • Fotheringham, Richard (2019). Alfred Dampier's 'Shakespearean Fridays'. Theatre Research International, 44 (2), 135-152. doi: 10.1017/S0307883319000026

  • Fotheringham, Richard (2016). The Great War and popular modernism: Pat Hanna's Louis XI. Queensland Review, 23 (2), 133-142. doi: 10.1017/qre.2016.25

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Supervision

  • (2005) Master Philosophy

  • (2005) Doctor Philosophy

  • (2002) Master Philosophy

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Publications

Book

Book Chapter

  • Fotheringham, Richard (2016). Introduction: a lawyer’s voyage to Van Diemen’s Land. The diary of Philip Thomas Smith on board the Royal Admiral en route for Van Diemen’s Land: 27 November 1831 to 8 April 1832. (pp. ix-xviii) edited by Richard Fotheringham. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

  • Fotheringham, Richard (2014). Editing popular nineteenth-century melodramas. The editorial gaze: mediating texts in literature and the arts. (pp. 119-128) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis .

  • Fotheringham, Richard (2014). “Gallipoli Bill”: a comedy of the Great War. Gallipoli Bill. (pp. 5-10) edited by Arthur Adams. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Playlab.

  • Fotheringham, Richard (2013). "Australia's One Successful Folk Drama": an introduction to 'On Our Selection'. On Our Selection. (pp. 5-12) Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Playlab Press.

  • Fotheringham, Richard and Carleton, Stephen (2013). "White Australia" in 1909: the background to the play and the two surviving scripts. White Australia or, the empty North. (pp. 6-16) edited by Richard Fotheringham. Brisbane, Australia: Playlab Press.

  • Fotheringham, Richard (2013). Preface: Australian theatre in the noughties. Catching Australian theatre in the 2000s. (pp. 9-13) edited by Richard Fotheringham and James Smith. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi.

  • Fotheringham, Richard (2010). Bert Bailey's Copy of On Our Selection. Found in Fryer : Stories from the Fryer Library Collection. (pp. 68-69) edited by Follett, Roslyn. St Lucia: University of Queensland Library.

  • Fotheringham, R. A. (2006). General Introduction. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. XXI-LXXXVI) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R A (2006). Introduction. Arabin; or, The Adventures of a Settler. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. 96-110) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R. A. (2006). Introduction. For 60,000 pounds. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. 387-396) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R A (2006). Introduction. For the Term of His Natural Life. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. 457-470) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R A (2006). Introduction. Hazard; or, Pearce Dyceton's Crime. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. 316-324) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R A (2006). Introduction. Life in Sydney; or, The Ran Dan Club. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. 41-58) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R A (2006). Introduction. The Bushrangers; or, Norwood Vale. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. 5-12) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R A (2006). Introduction. The House that Jack Built. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. 218-232) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R A (2006). Introduction. The Kelly Gang. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. 551-570) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R A (2006). Introduction. The South-Sea Sisters: A Lyric Masque. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage 1834-1899. (pp. 193-198) edited by R. Fotheringham. St Lucia, Queensland: The University of Queensland Press.

  • Fotheringham, R. A. (2001). Introduction: Tent Shows and Abominable Showmen. Way Out West: Legends and Larrikins - A Travelling Federation Show. (pp. 7-13) edited by Margery Forde and Michael Forde. Brisbane: Playlab Press.

  • Fotheringham, R. A. (2001). Shakespeare in Queensland: A Cultural-Economic Approach. O Brave New World: Two Centuries of Shakespeare on the Australian Stage. (pp. 218-235) edited by John Golder and Richard Madelaine. Sydney: Currency Press.

  • Fotheringham, R. A. (2001). Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis). Dictionary of Literary Biography. (pp. 327-336) edited by Selina Samuels. Detroit: Gale Research Co..

  • Fotheringham, R. A. (2000). Theatre from 1788 to the 1960s. Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature. (pp. 134-157) edited by Elizabeth Webby. Melbourne: Cambridge U P.

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