Captain Swift (play)

"[2] Historian Roger Neill wrote about the play, "At one level, it is a conventional drawing-room melodrama.

At another, the arrival of the Australian bushranger is used by Chambers to puncture the narrow assumptions of polite English society at that time.

[5] According to one writer, "the strength of the drama, the dexterity of the construction, the freshness of the treatment and the marked excellence of the dialogue won the enthusiastic approval of the audience, and moved the critics to exhaust their stock of superlatives.

"[9] An Australian outlaw, Captain Swift, manages ecapes to England where he lives under an assumed name, Wilding, and becomes a fixture in London's high society.

He meets Gardiner, a wealthy squatter who was once held up by Swift, and a detective, Ryan, who has come to London to arrest the bushranger.