Emeritus Professor Richard Fotheringham
Emeritus Professor
School of Communication and Arts
Researcher biography
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.
Publications
Books
Melville, Henry and Fotheringham, Richard (editor) (2013). The Bushrangers. Brisbane, Australia: Playlab Press.
Bedford, Randolph (author) and Fotheringham, Richard (editor) (2013). White Australia; or, The Empty North. Brisbane, Australia: Playlab Press.
Fotheringham, Richard (2011). Massacres of Australian Aborigines in Queensland’s Maranoa region in the 1850s. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: The University of Queensland.
Pearn, Nigel and Fotheringham, Richard (2007). A history of the Avalon Theatre, 1921-2007. St Lucia: The University of Queensland.
Fotheringham, Richard, 1947- (1995). In search of Steele Rudd : author of the classic Dad & Dave stories. St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press.
Book Chapters
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). “Gallipoli Bill”: a comedy of the Great War. Gallipoli Bill. (pp. 5-10) edited by Arthur Adams. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Playlab.
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 (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 (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 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 (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). 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). 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. 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. 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. 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. (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. 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. 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. 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. (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.
Journal Articles
Fotheringham, Richard (2021). Staging Music in Shakespeare. Australasian Drama Studies, 2021 (78), 7-33.
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
Fotheringham, Richard (2016). Screening live performance: Australia's major theatre companies in the age of digital transmission. Australasian Drama Studies (68), 3-33.
Fotheringham, Richard (2015). Index. Contemporary Theatre Review, 25 (1), 115-118. doi: 10.1080/10486801.2015.992606
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.
Fotheringham, Richard (2010). Inside the killing fields of Queensland. The Australian Literary Review, 12-13.
Fotheringham, Richard (2010). Review of: Gae Anderson, Tivoli King: Life of Harry Rickards, Vaudeville Showman (Sydney: Allambie, 2009). Australasian Drama Studies, 57, 231-233.
Fotheringham, Richard (2010). Laughing it off: Australian stage comedy after World War 1. History Australia, 7 (1), 03.1-03.20. doi: 10.2104/ha100003
Fotheringham, Richard (2009). Speaking a new world: Language in early Australian plays. AUMLA - Journal of the Australasian Universities Language & Literature Association, 111 (May), 1-20. doi: 10.1179/000127909805259580
Fotheringham, Richard and Pensalfini, Rob (2007). Anti-colonial Voices? Non-British Accents and the National Authentication of Shakespeare in Australia in the 1970s. Australasian Drama Studies, 50 (50), 49-65.
Fotheringham, Richard (2005). Li, Ruru. Shashibiya: Staging Shakespeare in China. Australasian Drama Studies (46), 139-143.
Fotheringham, Richard (2005). Theatrical Events: Borders, Dynamics, Frames (review). Modern Drama, 48 (4), 852-854. doi: 10.1353/mdr.2006.0025
Fotheringham, R. A. (2004). 'It's worse further up'. review of Graham Seal, Inventing ANZAC: The digger and national mythology. Australian Book Review, 265, 24-24.
Fotheringham, Richard A. (2003). Viola Tait, Principal boys ... and all that: A history of pantomime in Australia. Australasian Drama Studies (43), 189-192.
Fotheringham, R. A. (2003). Review of See How It Runs: Nimrod and the New Wave. By Julian Meyrick. Theatre Research International, 28 (2), 218-219. doi: 10.1017/S0307883303291094
Fotheringham, R. A. (2003). 'Spouting in the Colonies'. Review of Robert Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840.. Australian Book Review, 248, 31-31.
Fotheringham, R. A. (2003). Exiled to the colonies: 'Oscar Wilde' in Australia 1895-1897. Nineteenth Century Theatre & Film, 30 (2), 55-68.
Fotheringham, R. (2003). Review of Canvas Documentaries: Panoramic Entertainments in Nineteenth-Century Australia and New Zealand. By Mimi Colligan. Theatre Research International, 28 (2), 216-217. doi: 10.1017/S0307883303271091
Fotheringham, R. A. (2002). An Ocker in Centre Stage. Sydney Morning Herald, 29-30 June, 10-10.
Fotheringham, R. A. (2001). Amphitheater staging: In-the-round or to the front (and what about asides)?. Comparative Drama, 35 (2), 163-176. doi: 10.1353/cdr.2001.0018
Fotheringham, R. A. (2001). Theorising the Individual Body on Stage and Screen; or, The Jizz of Martin Guerre'. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 15 (2), 17-32.
Fotheringham, R. A. (2001). Audiences as performers: Laughter and interpretative repertoires in a performance season for Young People. NJ (Drama australia Journal), 25 (2), 65-78.
Fotheringham, R. A. (2000). The Cambridge History of American Theatre: Vol 1, ed Don B Wilmeth & Christopher Bigsby. Australasian Drama Studies, 37, 106-110.
Fotheringham, R. A. (2000). Writing in dark times. Ignite, 4, 10-12.
Fotheringham, R. A. (2000). Defiance: Political Theatre in Brisbane, 1930-1962. NJ (Drama Australia Journal), 24 (1), 125-127.
Atkinson, Roslyn and Fotheringham, Richard (1987). Dramatic Copyright in Australia to 1912. Australasian Drama Studies, 11, 47-63.
Fotheringham, Richard (1985). The Doubling of Roles on the Jacobean Stage. Theatre Research International, 10 (1), 18-32. doi: 10.1017/S0307883300010464
Conference Paper
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.
Reference Entries
Fotheringham, Richard and Kelly, Veronica (1995). Ostracised.