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- ↑ "'Shrew' modern and Australian". The Sydney Morning Herald TV Guide. 22 January 1973. p. 1.
- ↑ "TV Guide". The Sydney Morning Herald. 22 January 1973. p. 12.
- ↑ Ed. Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p151
- ↑ Elizabeth Schafer, "Reconciliation Shakespeare?: Aboriginal presence in Australian Shakespeare Production", in Elizabeth Schafer and Susan Bradley Smith (eds.), Playing Australia: Australian Theatre and the International Stage (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003), 64
- ↑ "So what's new for 1973?". The Age TV Guide. 18 January 1973. p. 2.
- ↑ Pinkney, John (9 March 1973). "Now the bard's broken enter Strinespeare". The Age. p. 2.
