The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama

Herausgeber: Brown, Ian

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Produktbeschreibung

Author-Approved Blurb The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama Edited by Ian Brown Combines historical rigour with an analysis of dramatic contexts, themes and forms The 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 Features * Provides a thorough overview of Scottish theatre from the earliest days to the present * Deals with play texts as well as with the key contexts and themes of drama and theatre over the years * Provides insights into the work of leading Scottish playwrights, including the new generations since the 1970s * Written for students and theatre-lovers alike Ian Brown is a playwright, poet and Professor in Drama at Kingston University. Editor of Journey's beginning: the Gateway Theatre building and company, 1884-1965 (2004) and General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (2007), he is Visiting Professor at Glasgow and Glamorgan Universities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780748641086
• ISBN-10: 0748641084
• Artikelnr.: 33872767

Autorenporträt

Ian Brown is Emeritus Professor in Drama at Kingston University and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University. He is the General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and widely published on aspects of theatre and literature. He is also a playwright and poet.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Ian Brown 1 Scottish drama until 1650 Sarah Carpenter 2 Public
and private performance: 1650-1800 Ian Brown 3 Folk Drama in Gaelic
Scotland Michael Newton 4 The National Drama and the Nineteenth Century
Barbara Bell 5 Twentieth-Century Popular Theatre Paul Maloney 6 Drama,
Language, and Late Twentieth-Century Literary Revival Randall Stevenson 7
History in Contemporary Scottish Theatre David Archibald 8 Translated Drama
in Scotland John Corbett 9 J.M. Barrie R.D.S. Jack 10 The Mid-Century
Dramatists Donald Smith 11 James Bridie, Theatre and Scotland Gerard
Carruthers 12 Poets in the Theatre: Ure, Kay, Conn, Morgan Anne Varty 13
Women playwrights from the 1970s and 1980s Tom Maguire 14 The Traverse,
1985-1997: Arnott, Clifford, Hannan, Harrower, Greig and Greenhorn Steve
Cramer 15 Liz Lochhead Ksenija Horvat 16 Identity and Difference in
Post-Devolutionary Drama Trish Reid 17 The Experience and Contexts of Drama
in Scotland David Hutchison Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors
Index