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The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama
About this book
The ideal guide for students and theatre-lovers alike, the Companion explores the longstanding and vibrant Scottish dramatic tradition and the important developments in Scottish dramatic writing and theatre over the last hundred years.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Introduction: A Lively Tradition and Creative Amnesia
- 1 Scottish Drama until 1650
- 2 Public and Private Performance: 1650–1800
- 3 Folk Drama in Gaelic Scotland
- 4 The National Drama and the Nineteenth Century
- 5 Twentieth-Century Popular Theatre
- 6 Drama, Language and Late Twentieth-Century Literary Revival
- 7 History in Contemporary Scottish Theatre
- 8 Translated Drama in Scotland
- 9 J. M. Barrie
- 10 The Mid-Century Dramatists
- 11 James Bridie
- 12 Poets in the Theatre: Ure, Kay, Conn, Morgan
- 13 Women Playwrights from the 1970s and 1980s
- 14 The Traverse, 1985–97: Arnott, Clifford, Hannan, Harrower, Greig and Greenhorn
- 15 Liz Lochhead
- 16 Post-Devolutionary Drama
- 17 The Experience and Contexts of Drama in Scotland
- Endnotes
- Further Reading
- Notes on Contributors
- Index