The Bushrangers
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The Bushrangers; or Norwood Vale is a 1834 Australian stage play by Henry Melville. It was the first play with an Australian theme to be published and staged in Australia.
It is not to be confused with the 1829 play The Bushrangers by David Burn. According to Margare Williams, the plays "belong to two very different studies of the bushranging subject, and the immigrant Melville’s is, surprisingly, the less specific of the two. It has about as simple a melodramatic plot as it would be possible to find and seems to confirm the author’s description of it in his foreword to the published text as ‘a theatrical piece, introducing a few Colonial characters’."
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