Abstract

This book has an axe to grind. Generations of critics, from the Cambridge History of British Theatre to the Scots Makar Liz Lochhead, have apparently been 'misinformed' when they lamented the dearth of Scottish drama in post-Reformation Scotland. Admittedly, so Ian Brown, the editor of the Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama, Scottish theatre 'has seemed to lack playwriting stars to match Shakespeare, Congreve or Sheridan,' but otherwise it was 'both vibrant and varied', part of a 'highly performative culture', full of'bubbling vitality and fertility'.

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