Performing Scottishness

Ian Brown is Emeritus Professor in Drama at Kingston University, UK, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Scottish Literature at Glasgow University, UK, as well as a playwright and poet. His 2013 history, Scottish Theatre: Diversity, Language, Continuity, was called 'transformational'. His History as Theatrical Metaphor was shortlisted for the 2017 Saltire Society Research Book of the Year.

1. Chapter 1: Introduction: Representational and Representative Performance of the Nation.- Chapter 2: Nationhood, the Declaration of Arbroath and an exploding pillar box.- Chapter 3: The Treaty of Union, Scoto-Britishness and Anglo-Britain.- Chapter 4: Bards, Britishness, buildings and cultural memory.- Chapter 5: Cultural communication, language performance and national literatures.- Chapter 6: Imagined borders, subverted centres and hybridity.- Chapter 7: Tartan enactments and performing hybridity.- Chapter 8: Language and resistance in theatre, music hall and variety.- Chapter 9: Comedy, television, hybridity and Scottish Camp.- Chapter 10: Film from oligopoly to The Angel's Share.- Chapter 11: Internalising exile at home and away.

"This book presents an interesting and wide-ranging discussion of the performance of Scottish identity at different points of history, informed largely by the author's long and distinguished career in theatre, critical and literary studies. ... I am confident that this wide-ranging account of performance in Scottish identity will be of great use to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Scottish culture, as well as to wider interested audiences." (Stuart S. Dunmore, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, June 11, 2023)

"This book covers a lot of ground historically and generically and it is a tribute to Brown's scholarship and synoptic talent that he makes a good fist of holding all this material together in a coherent argument." (Media Education Journal, Issue 67, 2020)