Stephen Gray - Revision history

Darryl: /* As playwright */

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As playwright

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Sources

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Sources

Darryl: /* As anthologist */

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As anthologist

Satj at 15:57, 28 May 2022

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Sources

Satj: /* Biography */

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Biography

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Biography

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Sources

Satj at 06:06, 27 October 2020

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	''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (1980), a play based on the prison diaries of [[Herman Charles Bosman]].		''[[Cold Stone Jug]]'' (1980), a play based on the prison diaries of [[Herman Charles Bosman]].
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		+	''[[Peepshow]]'' (1980?)

	''[[Schreiner: A One Woman Play]]'' (1983)		''[[Schreiner: A One Woman Play]]'' (1983)

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 https://www.newframe.com/man-of-letters-stephen-gray-dies-at-78/
-[[Michael Chapman]] (2021) In Memory of Stephen Gray (1941–2020), ''[[CurrentWriting: Text and Reception in Southern Africa]]'', 33:1, 7-9 (DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2021.1901410)
+[[Michael Chapman]] (2021) In Memory of Stephen Gray (1941–2020), ''[[Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa]]'', 33:1, 7-9 (DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2021.1901410)
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	https://www.newframe.com/man-of-letters-stephen-gray-dies-at-78/		https://www.newframe.com/man-of-letters-stephen-gray-dies-at-78/
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		+	[[Michael Chapman]] (2021) In Memory of Stephen Gray (1941–2020), ''[[CurrentWriting: Text and Reception in Southern Africa]]'', 33:1, 7-9 (DOI: 10.1080/1013929X.2021.1901410)

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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 ''[[Theatre Two: New South African Drama]]'', [[Ad Donker]], Johannesburg, 1981
-''[[Modern Stage Directions: A Collection of Short Dramatic Scripts]]'', [[Maskew Miller Longman]], Cape Town, 1984, (edited with [[David Schalkwyk]])
+''[[Modern Stage Directions|Modern Stage Directions: A Collection of Short Dramatic Scripts]]'', [[Maskew Miller Longman]], Cape Town, 1984, (edited with [[David Schalkwyk]])
 ''[[Stephen Black: Three Plays]]'', Johannesburg: [[Ad Donker]], 1984.

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−	[[Stephen Gray]] (1941-2020)~~. Immensely~~ influential South African academic, literary historian, theatre reviewer, poet, novelist and playwright.	+	[[Stephen Gray]] (1941-2020) was an immensely influential South African academic, literary historian, theatre reviewer, poet, novelist and playwright.
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	== Biography==		== Biography==

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-Go to [[ESAT Bibliography|South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
+Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 == Return to ==

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 Over the years Gray has been a dramatic and literary advisor to numerous publishers, journals and theatre companies.
-He died at the age of 78, after a short illness, on 22 October 2020 in Johannesburg.
+He died of prostate cancer and a stroke on 22 October 2020 in Johannesburg.
 == His academic career ==

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	http://www.cuetg.co.uk/		http://www.cuetg.co.uk/
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		+	https://www.newframe.com/man-of-letters-stephen-gray-dies-at-78/

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography\|South African Theatre/Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography\|South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

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-[[Stephen Gray]] (1941-). Immensely influential South African academic, literary historian, theatre reviewer, poet, novelist and playwright.
+[[Stephen Gray]] (1941-2020). Immensely influential South African academic, literary historian, theatre reviewer, poet, novelist and playwright.
-== Training ==
+== Biography==
 Born in Cape Town, he went to high school at St Andrews College, Grahamstown, then completed a BA degree at the University of Cape Town , followed by a MA in English at Cambridge University (1964). While there he was Editor of Granta, and the director of the the  [[Cambridge Shakespeare Group]]. He had a spell as Lecturer in English, Aix-en-Provence for two years and in 1969, he completed an MFA at the Writers' Workshop at the  University of Iowa.
-Returned to South Africa to become a lecturer and later professor of English at the [[Rand Afrikaans University]] (later called the [[University of Johannesburg]]) from 1970 to 1992. In this period he completed a doctorate, obtaining a D. Litt et Phil. from the [[Rand Afrikaans University]] in 1978. In 1982  he was writer-in-residence, at the University of Queensland, Australia. He retired as Professor Emeritus, becoming a freelance writer.
+Returned to South Africa to become a lecturer and later professor of English at the [[Rand Afrikaans University]] (later called the [[University of Johannesburg]]) from 1970 to 1992. In this period he completed a doctorate, obtaining a D. Litt et Phil. from the [[Rand Afrikaans University]] in 1978. In 1982  he was writer-in-residence, at the University of Queensland, Australia. He retired as Professor Emeritus, becoming a freelance writer. He was more remarkable for never having embraced digital technology, writing his articles, books and numerous letters by hand.
 Over the years Gray has been a dramatic and literary advisor to numerous publishers, journals and theatre companies.
 == His academic career ==
 Gray followed in the footsteps of [[Guy Butler]], to play an enormously influential role in establishing South African literature as a legitimate and exciting field of study and endeavour. He has been especially important as an obsessive literary archeologist, digging up unknown or little known facts and features of the South African literary landscape and has been a stalwart supporter and collaborator of [[NELM]] and other archives and research centres, including the [[Centre for South African Theatre Research]] ([[CESAT]]) at the [[HSRC]] in Pretoria.