Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama

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.

• IntroductionIan Brown1 Scottish drama until 1650Sarah Carpenter2 Public and private performance: 1650-1800Ian Brown3 Folk Drama in Gaelic ScotlandMichael Newton4 The National Drama and the Nineteenth CenturyBarbara Bell5 Twentieth-Century Popular TheatrePaul Maloney6 Drama, Language, and Late Twentieth-Century Literary RevivalRandall Stevenson7 History in Contemporary Scottish TheatreDavid Archibald8 Translated Drama in ScotlandJohn Corbett9 J.M. BarrieR.D.S. Jack10 The Mid-Century DramatistsDonald Smith11 James Bridie, Theatre and ScotlandGerard Carruthers12 Poets in the Theatre: Ure, Kay, Conn, MorganAnne Varty13 Women playwrights from the 1970s and 1980sTom Maguire14 The Traverse, 1985-1997: Arnott, Clifford, Hannan, Harrower, Greig and GreenhornSteve Cramer15 Liz LochheadKsenija Horvat16 Identity and Difference in Post-Devolutionary DramaTrish Reid17 The Experience and Contexts of Drama in ScotlandDavid HutchisonEndnotesFurther ReadingNotes on Contributors Index