CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Post-Devolutionary Drama

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Series Editors’ Preface viii
4. INTRODUCTION: A Lively Tradition and Creative Amnesia 1
5. CHAPTER ONE. Scottish Drama until 1650 6
6. CHAPTER TWO. Public and Private Performance: 1650–1800 22
7. CHAPTER THREE. Folk Drama in Gaelic Scotland 41
8. CHAPTER FOUR. The National Drama and the Nineteenth Century 47
9. CHAPTER FIVE. Twentieth-Century Popular Theatre 60
10. CHAPTER SIX. Drama, Language and Late Twentieth- Century Literary Revival 73
11. CHAPTER SEVEN. History in Contemporary Scottish Theatre 85
12. CHAPTER EIGHT. Translated Drama in Scotland 95
13. CHAPTER NINE. J. M. Barrie 107
14. CHAPTER TEN. The Mid-Century Dramatists 118
15. CHAPTER ELEVEN. James Bridie 130
16. CHAPTER TWELVE. Poets in the Theatre: Ure, Kay, Conn, Morgan 140
17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Women Playwrights from the 1970s and 1980s 154
18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Traverse, 1985–97: Arnott, Clifford, Hannan, Harrower, Greig and Greenhorn 165
19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Liz Lochhead 177
20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Post-Devolutionary Drama 188
21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. The Experience and Contexts of Drama in Scotland 200
22. Endnotes 211
23. Further Reading 236
24. Notes on Contributors 239
25. Index 242