Inhalt: | Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Literary tradition and diversity of language -- Hybridity and cultural gravity: crossing boundaries in Scottish cultures -- Scots language: personal, political, social and commercial -- The historiography of Scottish drama and public performance -- Public enactments, gender, community and language -- Twentieth-century drama, innovation and the Scots leid -- Border-crossing, popular theatre and performative modes -- Diversification, language, gender and sexuality -- Rethinking dramaturgy -- The box-office appeal of new plays in Scots – some reflections -- Index. Challenging the dominant view of a broken and discontinuous dramatic culture in Scotland, this book outlines the variety and richness of the nation´s performance traditions and multilingual theatre history. Brown illuminates enduring strands of hybridity and diversity which use theatre and theatricality as a means of challenging establishment views, and of exploring social, political, and religious change. He describes the ways in which politically and religiously divisive moments in Scottish history, such as the Reformation and political Union, fostered alternative dramatic modes and means of expression. This major revisionist history also analyses the changing relationships between drama, culture, and political change in Scotland in the 20th and 21st centuries, drawing on the work of an extensive range of modern and contemporary Scottish playwrights and drama practitioners |
