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This chapter is concerned with the creation of Athol Fugard’s plays not as performances or as texts, but as material objects: it explores how the social conditions of textual production and circulation have affected their interpretation. It charts the transformation of ‘Fugard’ into an increasingly valuable piece of literary property, on which different meanings have been inscribed.
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Athol Fugard, Notebooks, 1960–1977, ed. Mary Benson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984), pp. 150–1.
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Albert Wertheim, The Dramatic Art of Athol Fugard (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), pp. xi.
Dennis Walder, Athol Fugard (Tavistock: Northcote House Publishers, 2003), p. 57.
Athol Fugard, ‘Introduction’, in Three Port Elizabeth Plays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974), p. xxiv.
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Dennis Walder, Township Plays (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), p. xxviii.
Dennis Walder, ‘Crossing Boundaries: The Genesis of the Township Plays’, Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal, 39:4 (1993), pp. 409–22.
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Davis, C. (2013). Publishing Athol Fugard. In: Creating Postcolonial Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328380_11
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