The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781325803321
• Autore: Brown Ian
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-22172-1; 9786613221728; 0-7486-4634-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Collana: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature
• Disciplina: 821.008
• Soggetti: Scottish drama; Scottish literature -- Drama; Scottish literature; Scottish drama - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Copyright; 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 1970's and 1980's; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.