Shakespeare and Scotland

Willy Maley, Andrew Murphy

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9780719066375
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526135100
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Shakespeare Drama
• Index: Literature

Shakespeare and Scotland is a timely collection of new essays in which leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic address a neglected national context for an exemplary body of dramatic work too often viewed within a narrow English milieu or against a broad British backdrop.

These essays explore, from a variety of critical perspectives, the playwright's place in Scotland and the place of Scotland in his work. From critical reception to dramatic and cinematic adaptation, the contributors engage with the complexity of Shakespeare's Scotland and Scotland's Shakespeare. The influence of Scotland on Shakespeare's writing, and later on his reception, is set alongside the dramatic effects that Shakespeare's work had on the development of Scottish literature, from the Globe to globalisation, and from Captain Jamy and King James to radical productions at the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow.

Table of contents

• Front matter
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: then with Scotland first begin
• ’Stands Scotland where it did?’ Shakespeare on the march
• Wrapped in the strong arms of the Union: Shakespeare and King James
• The place of Scots in the Scottish play: Macbeth and the politics of language
• Macbeth and the rhetoric of political forms
• Hamlet’s country matters: the ‘Scottish play’ within the play
• ’How Scottish was ‘the Scottish play’? Macbeth’s national identity in the eighteenth century
• The Bard: Ossian, Burns, and the shaping of Shakespeare
• ‘Not fit to tie his brogues’: Shakespeare and Scott
• Shakespeare goes to Scotland: a brief history of Scottish editions
• Citz Scotland where it did? Shakespeare in production at the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, 1970–74
• Appendix: Chronology: Productions of Shakespeare plays by the Citizens’ Theatre Company, 1970–2001
• Local Macbeth / global Shakespeare: Scotland’s screen destiny
• Index