The Bushrangers

The issue of bushrangers[1] is a feature of Australian writing and there have been a number of Australian plays by this name.

Early plays about bushrangers include David Burn's The Bushrangers (1829), William Leman Rede's Faith and Falsehood; or, The Fate of the Bushranger (1830), The Bushrangers, or Norwood Vale (1834) by Henry Melville and The Bushrangers, a Play in Five Acts, and Other Poems (1835) by [[Charles Harpur].

The Bushrangers by David Burn

Most writers date the indigenous drama from 1828, when David Burn (1799-1875) wrote his melodrama The Bushrangers . This was first staged at the Caledonian Theatre, Edinburgh in 1829.

Faith and Falsehood, or The Fate of the Bushranger by William Leman Rede

1830,

The Bushrangers, or Norwood Vale by Henry Melville

According to Wikipedia[2], The Bushrangers, or Norwood Vale was the first substantial play with an Australian theme to be written, published and performed in Australia. It examines honor and trust in the harsh Australian bush and the relationship between white settlers, the aboriginal people and the bushrangers and thus marked the earliest appearance of an actor in blackface in an Australian play.

First produced in an extended form at the Theatre Royal in the Argyle Rooms, Hobart, 29 May and 2 June 1834. Also produced at the Launceston Theatre, 1835.

First produced in Hobart and Launceston, opening on 29 May 1834, the text published.

The Bushrangers: A Play in Five Acts by Charles Harpur (1813-1868)

Also known as The Bushrangers, or The Tregedy of Donohoe, the work was first published in 1853 in the volume The Bushrangers: A Play in Five Acts And Other Poems by W. R. Piddington, Sydney. The play, written in verse, was never produced.

John Gassner and Edward Quinn. 1969. The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama Reprinted in 2002 by the Courier Corporation[3]