Temple Hauptfleisch

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Temple Hauptfleisch is a South African playwright and academic, a professor emeritus of drama at Stellenbosch University. [1]

Haupfleisch did his undergraduate studies at the University of the Orange Free State, graduating in 1966, and then went on to graduate studies at the University of South Africa, earning a master's degree in 1972 and a doctorate in 1978. At Stellenbosch, he chaired the drama department from 1995 to 2005. He is a co-founder (in 1987) and editor-in-chief of the South African Theatre Journal. [2]

He is the author of the book Theatre and Society in South Africa: Reflections in a Fractured Mirror (Pretoria: J. L. van Schaik, 1997). [3]

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References

  1. Academic staff Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine , Drama Department, Stellenbosch University, retrieved 2012-11-27.
  2. Faculty profile Archived 2012-12-24 at archive.today , Drama Department, Stellenbosch University, retrieved 2012-11-27.
  3. Kruger, Loren (Winter 1999), "Theatre and Society in South Africa: Reflections in a Fractured Mirror, and: Decolonizing the Stage: Theatrical Syncretism and Post-Colonial Drama (review)", Research in African Literatures, 30 (4): 212–215, doi:10.1353/ral.2005.0043, S2CID   161885047 .