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)

61 - 62 of 62 works

1987

Journal Article

Dramatic Copyright in Australia to 1912

Atkinson, Roslyn and Fotheringham, Richard (1987). Dramatic Copyright in Australia to 1912. Australasian Drama Studies, 11, 47-63.

Dramatic Copyright in Australia to 1912

1985

Journal Article

The Doubling of Roles on the Jacobean Stage

Fotheringham, Richard (1985). The Doubling of Roles on the Jacobean Stage. Theatre Research International, 10 (1), 18-32. doi: 10.1017/S0307883300010464

The Doubling of Roles on the Jacobean Stage

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

Emeritus Professor Richard Fotheringham is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Completed supervision

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