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

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...

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