TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Ian AU - Archibald,David AU - Bell,Barbara AU - Brown,Ian AU - Carpenter,Sarah AU - Carruthers,Gerard AU - Clancy,Thomas Owen AU - Corbett,John AU - Cramer,Steve AU - Horvat,Ksenija AU - Hutchison,David AU - Jack,R.D.S. AU - Maguire,Tom AU - Maloney,Paul AU - Newton,Michael AU - Reid,Trish AU - Smith,Donald AU - Stevenson,Randall AU - Varty,Anne TI - The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama T2 - Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL SN - 9780748641086 AV - PR6069.T459 U1 - 821.008 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Scottish drama KW - History and criticism KW - Literary Studies KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 part of the volume covers Scottish drama from the earliest records to the late twentieth-century literary revival, as well as translation in Scottish theatre and non-theatrical drama. The second part focuses on the work of influential Scottish playwrights, from J. M. Barrie and James Bridie to Ena Lamont Stewart, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan and right up to contemporary playwrights Anthony Neilson, Gregory Burke, Henry Adams and Douglas Maxwell.Key FeaturesProvides a thorough overview of Scottish theatre from the earliest days to the presentDeals with play texts as well as with the key contexts and themes of drama and theatre over the yearsProvides insights into the work of leading Scottish playwrights, including the new generations since the 1970s UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748646340 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748646340 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748646340/original ER -