Review of The Making of Australian Drama: A Historical and Critical Survey from the 1830s to the 1970s by Leslie Rees
Abstract
Leslie Rees' The Making of Australian Drama—enlarged and updated from Towards an Australian Drama (1953) —is absorbing to read but difficult to classify. As a record of the making of Australian drama it is informative and entertaining; as a reference book it has no rival in its field; but as a scholarly history it has a number of weaknesses.
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Published 1 October 1973 in Volume 6 No. 2. Subjects: Drama & theatre criticism.
Cite as: Gostand, Reba. ‘Review of The Making of Australian Drama: A Historical and Critical Survey from the 1830s to the 1970s by Leslie Rees.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 1973, doi: 10.20314/als.f9c7533b98.