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Umfang: 1 online resource (256 p.)

ISBN: 9780748646340

Serie: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature : ECSL

Inhalt: 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

Anmerkung: 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 , In English.

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 9780748641086

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780748646340

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748646340

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748646340

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748646340

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748646340