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Campbell Howard Index - E

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• Elliot, Summer Locke. see Locke-Elliott
• Esson
• Eyre, Hal. See Lucas, Llywelyn and Eyre, Hal.

138	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Andeganora
	Date	1937
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A camp in the bush in the Northern Territory. Sunset.
	Characters	ANDEGANORA, a very old blackfellow, father of Maboyer BILL O'NEILL, a brumby runner MABOYER, a black boy, working for O'Neil MOUNTED CONSTABLE YEBOLMA, Maboyer's lubra
	Subject(s)	Aborigines; Race Relations
	Published	Best Australian One Act Plays, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1937.
	Held in MS/TS	ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
139	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Australia Felix: A Dialogue
	Date	1926
	Length	One Act
	Setting	Gavan's semi-permanent bush camp, a lonely but picturesque spot near Mallacoota Inlet in Far Eastern Gippsland, overlooking the Southern Ocean.
	Characters	MICHAEL GAVAN, a writer and a politican, about fifty-five STUART GRAHAM, a young painter HELEN, his wife DICK, a bushman, about thirty WILLIE, Gavan's son, about twenty Voice of HARDING
	Cast	Bryan Marshall David McCubbin Julia MacDougall Leon Teague Daniel Wyllie Frank Lloyd
	Subject(s)	Politics and Ideology
	Published	Ballades of Old Bohemia; an Anthology of Louis Esson, Red Rooster Press, Ascot Vale, 1980.
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Two versions held in the Campbell Howard Collection]. ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
140	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Bride of Gospel Place, The; A Play in Four Acts
	Date	1926
	Length	Four Acts
	Setting	I An all-night restaurant. II The Parlour in the Bride's cottage. Some weeks later. III The Special Ward. A public hospital. The same night. IV The same as Act II. The next night.
	Characters	THE MASTER, formerly an articled clerk SPIRO, a Greek restaurant keeper "BUSH" REYNOLDS, a pugilist JOE, Spiro's assistant A TAXI DRIVER A YOUNG DOCTOR A MEDICAL STUDENT "VANITY FAIR" "MILKY" DAVIS, a confidence man RENIE CONSTABLE DOBSON "SMITHY THE LIAR", a thief LILY, known as "THE BRIDE" BILL, Renie's husband MADAME DELIA, a fortune teller SUZETTE A NURSE A BALLET GIRL A CHARWOMAN
	Subject(s)	Crime; Slum Life
	Published	The Southern Cross and Other Plays, Robertson and Mullens, Melbourne, 1946.
	Held in MS/TS	ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
141	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Dead Timber
	Date	1911
	Length	One Act
	Setting	Outside a slab hut in the middle of a half- cleared selection in the Gippsland bush.
	Characters	A SELECTOR JOE ABE WIFE MARY
	Subject(s)	Bush Life
	Published	Three Short Plays, Fraser and Jenkinson, Melbourne, 1911. Dead Timber and Other Plays, Hendersons, London, 1920. Fifty Prize One-Act Plays, Harrap, London, 1934. Ballades of Old Bohemia; an Anthology of Louis Esson, Red Rooster Press, Ascot Vale, 1980.
	Held in MS/TS	ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
142	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Diggers' Rest: A Comedy in Three Acts (a.k.a. The Battler)
	Date	1922
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	An old deserted gold field.
	Characters	TERRIBLE MICK, an old fossicker ANDREW, an old fossicker JACK CONROY, estate agent and auctioneer SAM CLARKE, a bullock driver WATTY, Mrs Smith's son CLARA, a girl working at the shanty BILLY, a rouseabout BELLA, Sam's wife MRS JONES, an immigrant MRS SMITH, the store and shanty keeper GEORGE OGILVIE, a mining man
	Subject(s)	Bush Life; Miners and Mining; Work and Business
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Two versions held in the Campbell Howard Collection]ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
143	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Drovers, The
	Date	1923
	Length	One Act
	Setting	A droving camp on the edge of the Barklay Tableland. The camp is made on a little muddied water-hole fringed with a few gydgea trees; the plains, unbroken by timber, stretching to the horizon. Early morning. A camp-fire. Pack saddles strewn about.
	Characters	ALEC McKAY, the Boss "BRIGLOW" BILL BOB, a young drover MICK, a young drover ALBERT, the cook A JACKEROO PIDGEON, a Black Boy
	Cast	George Dawe Leo Burke Charles Doherty Reg Moyle J. O'Connell J. Harcourt Bailey Bryce Dunning
	Subject(s)	Aborigines; Bush Life; Mateship
	Published	Dead Timber and Other Plays, Hendersons, London, 1920. Six Australian One Act Plays, Mulga Publications, Sydney, 1944. Modern Short Plays, ed. Leslie Rees, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1951. On Stage!: Twelve Short Modern Plays comp. Henry George Fowler, Melbourne University Press, 1956. Five Plays for Stage, Radio and Television, ed. A.Sykes, University of Queensland Press, 1977.
	Held in MS/TS	ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
144	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Mother and Son; A Play in Three Acts
	Date	1923
	Length	Three Acts
	Setting	I Outside a bush hut. II The living room, some weeks later. III The same. Three months later.
	Characters	MRS LINDA, an old woman, a bee-keeper HARRY, her youngest son, aged twenty-five PETER, her husband , an old Norwegian TOM HENDERSON, an old splitter PEGGY DAWSON, a girl of nineteen TED, her brother, aged twelve JIM BLAKE, a squatter's son, aged twenty-three EMMA, a woman of thirty
	Subject(s)	Bush Life; Family Relations
	Published	The Southern Cross and Other Plays, Robertson and Mullens, Melbourne, 1946.
	Held in MS/TS	ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
145	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Quest, The: A Dramatic Legend in Six Scenes
	Date	1930 ca
	Length	Six Scenes
	Setting	i A room in Seville. 1600 ii Council Chamber, Madrid. Two years later. iii A Garden in Lima, Peru. Three years later. iv On board the Capitana. South Pacific Ocean. 1606. v The same. Mid-ocean. Six weeks later. vi Near the wharf, Panama. 1615.
	Characters	PEDRO FERNANDEZ DE QUIROS, a navigator DONA ANA, his wife FRANCISCO, his son, aged ten JERONIMA, his young daughter CARLOS, a shipping clerk MARIA, his wife A STATESMAN, AN ADMIRAL and A MATHEMATICIAN, the Council of Three LUIZ DE BELMONTE BERMUDEZ, secretary to De Quiros and a poet JUAN and DE VEGA, rich Peruvian youths INEZ DE MENDOZA and TERESA DE LARA, Peruvian girls THE COMMISSARY, an aged brother of eighty GONZALEA, a ruffian A STEERSMAN SAILORS, SOLDIERS, FRIARS, INDIAN SERVANTS, LOUNGERS AT PANAMA
	Subject(s)	De Quiros, Pedro Fernandez; Explorers; Historical Events or Characters
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Three versions of this play held in the Campbell Howard Collection including manuscript notebooks] ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
146	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Sacred Place, The
	Date	1912
	Length	One Act
	Setting	Melbourne. An Indian hawker's room, in the slum quarter of the city. The whitewashed walls are stained and dilapiDated looking. One small window overlooks the Street.
	Characters	SAID SHAH SHEREEF, an Indian hawker RAM CHANDRA, an Indian hawker ABDULLA, an Indian hawker AKBAR ALMAD, an Indian hawker MAHMUD, an Indian hawker REV. HERBERT JORDAN CONSTABLE MATTHEWS MUNSHI GOOLAM MUHAMED, a shopkeeper
	Cast	T. Skewes A.W. Foster L. Wilkie Tom Carter Louis McCubbin L. Arnold S. Macky G.B. Kirk
	Subject(s)	Law and Justice; Migran
	Published	Dead Timber and Other Plays by Louis Esson, Hendersons, London, 1920. Ballades of Old Bohemia; an Anthology of Louis Esson, Red Rooster Press, Ascot Vale, 1980.
	Held in MS/TS	ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
147	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Shipwreck: A Drama in Four Acts
	Date	1928 ca
	Length	Four Acts: Six Scenes
	Setting	I.i Stumpy's bar-room. A stormy night in winter. I.ii The same. Two months later. II On a cliff. Three days later. III A kitchen and living room. About a year later. IV.i The same. Three days later. IV.ii The same. Evening of the same day.
	Characters	"STUMPY" JOHNSON, a shanty-keeper TOM, his son, a cattleman CARL, an old Finnish sailor BEN, his young mate, a sailor SERGEANT GREGORY MARTHA KENNEDY MADGE, her daughter
	Subject(s)	Bush Life; Crime
	Published	Australian Drama 1920-1955, Department of Continuing Education, University of New England, Armidale, 1986.
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Three different versions of this play are held in the Campbell Howard Collection]. ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
148	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Southern Cross, The
	Date	1930 ca
	Length	Four Acts: Twelve Scenes
	Setting	I Ballarat Gold-fields. July 1854. II.i The same. Some months later. II.ii Government Offices, Melbourne. November 27th. II.iii Vice-regal residence, Toorac. The same afternoon. II.iv Bakery Hill, Ballarat. The afternoon of Wednesday, 29th November. III.i Room in a store. The next day. III.ii Bakery Hill. The same day. Afternoon. III.iii Eureka stockade. Saturday December 2nd. III.iv The same. Early next morning. IV.i A room in Miss Dunn's house in Geelong. Some weeks later, January 1855. IV.ii Vice-regal residence,Toorac. A month later. IV.iii The Supreme Court, Melbourne. March 21st, 1855. IV.iv A street outside the Supreme Court. A few minutes later.
	Characters	SIR CHARLES HOTHAM, Governor of Victoria CAPTAIN KAYE, his Private Secretary W.F. STAWELL, Attorney-General JOHN FITZGERALD FOSTER, Chief Secretary JUDGE BARRY B.C. ASPINALL, a barrister COMMISSIONER AMOS PETER LALOR, the Diggers' leader J.B. HUMFFRAY, Secretary of the Ballarat Reform League GEORGE BLACK, Editor of The Diggers'' Advocate TOM KENNEDY, a Scottish Chartist TIMOTHY HAYE, Chairman of the Bakery Hill meeting FREDERIC VERN, a young German soldier CARBONI RAFFAELLO, a teacher of languages FATHER SMYTHE, a priest PAT, a young digger MAT, an old digger HARRY, a storekeeper A TROOPER LADY HOTHAM, the Governor's wife MRS KAYE, wife of Captain Kaye ALICE DUNN, Lalor's fiancee NORA, Pat's wife MARY, a servant JESSIE, a young girl DIGGERS, TROOPERS, SOLDIERS, OFFICIALS, JURYMEN, PIKEMEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN, IMMIGRANTS OF VARIOUS NATIONALITIES
	Subject(s)	Ballarat; Colonial Period; Eureka Stockade; Historical Events or Characters; Lalor, Peter; Law and Justice; Miners and Mining; Politics and Ideology
	Published	he Southern Cross and Other Plays, Robertson and Mullens, Melbourne, 1946.
	Held in MS/TS	ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
149	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Time is Not Yet Ripe, The: A Comedy in Four Acts
	Date	1912
	Length	Four Acts
	Setting	I Sir Joseph Quiverton's drawing room. II.i The Socialist Club. Two weeks later. II.ii Miss Quiverton's Committee Room. III Vacant square, at Street Corner. Night before the Election. IV Sir Joseph Quiverton's drawing room. Election night.
	Characters	SIR JOSEPH QUIVERTON, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth DORIS, his daughter AN ENGLISH BUTLER SIR HENRY PILLSBURY, Attorney-General LADY PILLSBURY SYDNEY BARRETT JOHN K. HILL, a Chicago drummer MISS PERKINS, Secretary of the Anti- Socialist League OTTO, of the Socialist Party HARRY HOPKINS, of the Socialist Party PETER JENSEN, of the Socialist Party ARTHUR GRAY, of the Socialist Party BERTIE WAINWRIGHT VIOLET FAULKNER, B.A., LL.B., A FAT MAN A CHEEKY YOUTH A WORKING WOMAN AN OLD MAN ELECTORS, CITIZENS, etc.
	Cast	T. Skewes Isabel Handley Anthony Book Leonard Egerton Rose Seaton Donald Alsop A.S. Haybittel Dorothy Hiscock Clinton Newell Jack Fowler R. Withers E. Ross Earle George Kirk Lea Halinbourg Thomas Cletus Bruce Henderson Miss Bradley W. Bregenzer Members of the Victorian Socialists Party
	Subject(s)	Politics and Ideology; Public Life
	Published	Fraser and Jenkinson, Melbourne, 1912. Currency Press, Sydney, 1973.
	Held in MS/TS	ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
150	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Vagabond Camp: A Comedy in One Act;
	Date	1928
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The bank of a river
	Characters	DICK, a riverite BESS, his young wife SARAH, a woman of the roads ALF and BERT, Sarah's companions OLD BOB, a fisherman
	Subject(s)	Crime; Great Depression; Slum Life
	Published	Ballades of Old Bohemia; an Anthology of Louis Esson, Red Rooster Press, Ascot Vale, 1980.
	Held in MS/TS	NUNE: Campbell Howard Collection. [Two versions held in the Campbell Howard Collection] ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.
151	Author	Esson, Louis
	Title	Woman Tamer, The: An Episode of Black Eagle Lane
	Date	1910
	Length	One Act
	Setting	The front room of Katie's cottage. Afternoon.
	Characters	KATIE, a good looking young woman "CHOPSEY" RYAN, thief and busker SMITHY THE LIAR, his cobber CONSTABLE JONES 5. "BONGO"
	Cast	Maisie Maxwell Tom Skewes A. Douglas Hart Herbert Moroney M.S. MacNaughton
	Subject(s)	Moral Degeneration; Slum Life
	Published	Dead Timber and Other Plays, Hendersons, London,1920. Norm and Ahmed/The Woman Tamer, Currency Press, Sydney, 1976. Ballades of Old Bohemia; an Anthology of Louis Esson, Red Rooster Press, Ascot Vale, 1980.
	Held in MS/TS	ANL holds a collection of Louis Esson papers, MS 3185, and Esson playscripts in the British Drama League (Australia) manuscript collection, MS 5579.

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