Fisher's Ghost is a 1960 verse drama by Douglas Stewart.
The play strikingly illustrates the new attitude towards our folk-lore which is part of the changing Australian feeling of our history.
According to Clement Semmler, the play "is presented in an uninhibited mixture of colloquial prose and verse, carefully set against the speech usages of its time-setting of the 1820s in Australia.
The ballad form takes precedence in the verse, and one is aware that Stewart was at this time occupied with his project of editing early Australian bush songs and ballads...
The play itself Stewart intended to be one of a set of light comedies trying to capture the spirit of Australian humor.