The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama /

The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama / / Ian Brown.

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Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and formsThe 17 contributors explore the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre, with particular attention to the last 100 years.The first pa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
VerfasserIn:
Brown, Ian,
MitwirkendeR:
Archibald, David,
Bell, Barbara,
Brown, Ian,
Carpenter, Sarah,
Carruthers, Gerard,
Clancy, Thomas Owen,
Corbett, John,
Cramer, Steve,
Horvat, Ksenija,
Hutchison, David,
Jack, R. D. S.,
Maguire, Tom,
Maloney, Paul,
Newton, Michael,
Reid, Trish,
Smith, Donald,
Stevenson, Randall,
Varty, Anne,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editors’ Preface
  • INTRODUCTION: A Lively Tradition and Creative Amnesia
  • CHAPTER ONE. Scottish Drama until 1650
  • CHAPTER TWO. Public and Private Performance: 1650–1800
  • CHAPTER THREE. Folk Drama in Gaelic Scotland
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The National Drama and the Nineteenth Century
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Twentieth-Century Popular Theatre
  • CHAPTER SIX. Drama, Language and Late Twentieth- Century Literary Revival
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. History in Contemporary Scottish Theatre
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Translated Drama in Scotland
  • CHAPTER NINE. J. M. Barrie
  • CHAPTER TEN. The Mid-Century Dramatists
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. James Bridie
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. Poets in the Theatre: Ure, Kay, Conn, Morgan
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Women Playwrights from the 1970s and 1980s
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Traverse, 1985–97: Arnott, Clifford, Hannan, Harrower, Greig and Greenhorn
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Liz Lochhead
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Post-Devolutionary Drama
  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Experience and Contexts of Drama in Scotland
  • Endnotes
  • Further Reading
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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