The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama

Ian Brown is Professor in Drama at Kingston University. He is General Editor of The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature (EUP: 2007) and Series Editor of The Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature, co-editing the volume on the twentieth century (2009) and on drama (due out in 2011). Randall Stevenson is Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature. Major publications include Modernist Fiction (1998); The Oxford English Literary History vol.12, 1960-2000: The Last of England? (2004); and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006). He is also General Editor of the forthcoming Edinburgh History of Twentieth-Century Literature in Britain. Michael Newton is Assistant Professor of Celtic Studies at the St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia

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