The 3 Estaites : : The Millennium Version / / Alan Spence, Angus Calder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Spence, Alan,; Calder, Angus,
• MitwirkendeR: Calder, Angus,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (136 p.)

The 3 Estaites is - by common consent - Scotland's greatest play.First performed in Cupar, Fife in June 1552, it is the earliest Scottish play to have survived. Full of broad humour and pantomime-like farce, it also deals with dangerous topical issues, hitting out at corruption and hypocrisy in the ruling establishment, denouncing the oppression of the poor and calling for social 'reformation'. A young king is rescued from idle sexual dalliance and false counsels by Divine Correction and they preside over a Parliament summoned to enact just laws, where basic Christian tenets and values are affirmed - but Folly has the last word.In 2000 The 3 Estaites gained a fresh resonance when it celebrated both the Millennium and the rebirth of Scotland's Parliament by returning to Cupar for the first time in nearly four and a half centuries. This contemporary Scots version by the leading poet and playwright Alan Spence retains the structure and spirit of Lindsay's script while giving his language a new lease of life. The play's topical allusions have been updated brilliantly, but Lindsay's generous spirit and enormous sense of fun have been preserved.This is a national drama, expressing a comprehensive perspective of what Scotland is and what it might be - a land of justice, fellow-feeling and laughter.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Original cast list -- The Proclamation -- Part One -- Scene 1: Prologue -- Scene 2: The King and his Courtiers -- Scene 3: The entrance of Sensuality -- Scene 4: The King anticipates Sensuality -- Scene 5: The Courtiers' embassy to Sensuality -- Scene 6: The Courtiers' return to the King -- Scene 7: Sensuality comes to the King -- Scene 8: The entrance of Guid Counsel -- Scene 9: The entrance of the Vices -- Scene 10: The Vices ingratiate themselves with the King -- Scene 11: The Vices repel Guid Counsel -- Scene 12: The Second Song -- Scene 13: The entrance of Verity -- Scene 14: The entrance of Chastity -- Scene 15: Chastity approaches the King -- Scene 16: The entrance of Correction's Varlet -- Scene 17: The Vices flee -- Scene 18: The entrance of Divine Correction -- Scene 19: Divine Correction comes to the King -- Scene 20: The End of Part One -- Part Two -- Scene 21: The entrance of the Poor Man -- Scene 22: The Pardoner and the Soutars -- Scene 23: The Pardoner and the Poor Man -- Scene 24: The Thrie Estaites gang backward -- Scene 25: The entrance of Jane the Common-weil -- Scene 26: The Debate -- Scene 27: The expulsion of Spirituality -- Scene 28: The garbing of Jane -- Scene 29: The hanging of the Vices -- Scene 30: Folly's sermon -- Appendix: Cast breakdown