The Drovers (play)
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| The Drovers | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Louis Esson |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | drama |
The Drovers is a 1921 Australian play by Louis Esson. According to Esson's obituary the play was his "finest piece... one scene, one simple incident; it was what he could do; be never did anything better; and no one else did, either."[1]
It was published in a collection of plays in 1920[2] and 1945. The play was published before it had been performed.
Leslie Rees called The Drovers:
A play that will stand reading and rereading... Each character is dry-pointed, hardly more than a line-sketch in so brief a compass—... but definite and clear. The situation has some of the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. No play of ours more powerfully shows the grimness of a fate that broods over men who pit themselves against our vast inland wilderness.[3]