Emeritus Professor Richard Fotheringham
Emeritus Professor

Richard Fotheringham

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Background

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.

Availability

Emeritus Professor Richard Fotheringham is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

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

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62 works between 1985 and 2021
All (62) Journal Article (29) Book Chapter (21) Conference Publication (1) Book (6) Other Outputs (4) Edited Outputs (1)

1 - 20 of 62 works

2021

Journal Article

Staging Music in Shakespeare

Fotheringham, Richard (2021). Staging Music in Shakespeare. Australasian Drama Studies, 2021 (78), 7-33.

Staging Music in Shakespeare

2020

Journal Article

May Holt’s Waiting Consent

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

May Holt’s Waiting Consent

2019

Journal Article

Alfred Dampier's 'Shakespearean Fridays'

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

Alfred Dampier's 'Shakespearean Fridays'

2016

Journal Article

The Great War and popular modernism: Pat Hanna's Louis XI

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

The Great War and popular modernism: Pat Hanna's Louis XI

2016

Journal Article

Screening live performance: Australia's major theatre companies in the age of digital transmission

Fotheringham, Richard (2016). Screening live performance: Australia's major theatre companies in the age of digital transmission. Australasian Drama Studies (68), 3-33.

Screening live performance: Australia's major theatre companies in the age of digital transmission

2016

Book

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

Richard Fotheringham ed. (2016). 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. Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.

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

2016

Book Chapter

Introduction: a lawyer’s voyage to Van Diemen’s Land

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.

Introduction: a lawyer’s voyage to Van Diemen’s Land

2015

Journal Article

Index

Fotheringham, Richard (2015). Index. Contemporary Theatre Review, 25 (1), 115-118. doi: 10.1080/10486801.2015.992606

Index

2014

Book Chapter

“Gallipoli Bill”: a comedy of the Great War

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

“Gallipoli Bill”: a comedy of the Great War

2014

Book Chapter

Editing popular nineteenth-century melodramas

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 .

Editing popular nineteenth-century melodramas

2014

Conference Publication

Using on-screen modeling to examine Shakespearean stage performance

Fotheringham, Richard (2014). Using on-screen modeling to examine Shakespearean stage performance. 9th World Shakespeare Congress 2011, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-22 July 2011. Lanham, MD, United States: University of Delaware Press.

Using on-screen modeling to examine Shakespearean stage performance

2013

Other Outputs

White Australia; or, The Empty North

Bedford, Randolph (author) and Fotheringham, Richard (editor) (2013). White Australia; or, The Empty North. Brisbane, Australia: Playlab Press.

White Australia; or, The Empty North

2013

Book Chapter

"White Australia" in 1909: the background to the play and the two surviving scripts

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.

"White Australia" in 1909: the background to the play and the two surviving scripts

2013

Book

The Bushrangers

Melville, Henry and Fotheringham, Richard (editor) (2013). The Bushrangers. Brisbane, Australia: Playlab Press.

The Bushrangers

2013

Book Chapter

Preface: Australian theatre in the noughties

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.

Preface: Australian theatre in the noughties

2013

Book

Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s

Richard Fotheringham and James Smith eds. (2013). Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s. Australian Playwrights, Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi.

Catching Australian Theatre in the 2000s

2013

Book Chapter

"Australia's One Successful Folk Drama": an introduction to 'On Our Selection'

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.

"Australia's One Successful Folk Drama": an introduction to 'On Our Selection'

2012

Journal Article

ADS at thirty: three decades of Australasian drama, theatre, performance and scholarly research

Fotheringham, Richard, Forgasz, Rachel, Ginters, Laura, Hunter, Mary Ann, Warrington, Lisa and Milne, Geoffrey (2012). ADS at thirty: three decades of Australasian drama, theatre, performance and scholarly research. Australasian Drama Studies, 60 (60), 6-19.

ADS at thirty: three decades of Australasian drama, theatre, performance and scholarly research

2011

Book

Massacres of Australian Aborigines in Queensland’s Maranoa region in the 1850s

Fotheringham, Richard (2011). Massacres of Australian Aborigines in Queensland’s Maranoa region in the 1850s. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.

Massacres of Australian Aborigines in Queensland’s Maranoa region in the 1850s

2010

Journal Article

Inside the killing fields of Queensland

Fotheringham, Richard (2010). Inside the killing fields of Queensland. The Australian Literary Review, 12-13.

Inside the killing fields of Queensland

Past funding

  • 2010 - 2011
    eResearch Infrastructure for Humanities Scholars: facilitating literary and narratives studies; children's and popular fictions and film/TV studies
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    AustLit Phase Three: Transforming the study of Australian Literature through a collaborative e-Research environment
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2009
    AustLit Phase Two: Research infrastructure for humanities and education researchers
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2008
    AusLit: Phase Two- humanities research infrastructure development, augmentation and expansion
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2006
    AustLit- humanities research infrastructure development through knowledge based data set building, augmentation of key research elements and ICT developments
    ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
    Open grant
  • 2005 - 2007
    Australian Stage Comedians 1915-1930: Configuring a Comic National Identity
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2004 - 2007
    From British Imperialist to Honorary Aussie to International Meeting-Place: How Shakespeare has been spoken and staged in Australia 1910-2003
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2002 - 2003
    An Investigation Using Primarily Visual and Aural Sources into the Ways in Which Shakespeare's Plays Have Been Performed in Australia.
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2000
    Electronic Editing and Internet Publication of Renaissance Play Texts: A Pilot Study Using Beaumont and Fletcher's The Woman's Prize (1611).
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant
  • 2000
    The Career and Plays of May Holt: An Important but Neglected Figure in Late Nineteenth-Century British and Australian Drama.
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant
  • 1998
    A critical biography of Alfred Dampier 1843-1908 Australian playwright and theatre director
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant
  • 1998 - 2000
    An investigation into the survival, conditions, and means of reclamation of major Australian plays from Federation to the Great Depression
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant
  • 1998
    Research into the Letters of Xavier Herbert
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant
  • 1996 - 1997
    Research into letters of Xavier Herbert
    ARC Australian Research Council (Small grants)
    Open grant
  • 1995 - 1997
    An investigation into the survival and condition and means of reclamation of Australian plays 1834-1930
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant

Availability

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