Shakespeare And Scotland

by Maley, Willy; Murphy, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780719066375
• ISBN10: 0719066379
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-10
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

This is atimely collection of new essays in which leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic address a neglected national context for a body of dramatic work too often viewed within a narrow English milieu or against a broad British backdrop. These essays explore the playwright's place in Scotland and the place of Scotland in his work. From critical reception to dramatic and cinematic adaptation, the contributors engage with the complexity of Shakespeare's Scotland and Scotland's Shakespeare. The influence of Scotland on Shakespeare's writing, and later on his reception, is set alongside the dramatic effects that his work had on the development of Scottish literature, from the Globe to globalization, and from Captain Jamy and King James to radical productions at the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow.

Author Biography

Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. Andrew Murphy is Reader in English Literature at the University of St Andrews.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction: then with Scotland first begin
Willy Maley & Andrew Murphy	1	(19)
1 'Stands Scotland where it did?' Shakespeare on the march
David J. Baker	20	(17)
2 Wrapped in the strong arms of the Union: Shakespeare and King James
Neil Rhodes	37	(16)
3 The place of Scots in the Scottish play: Macbeth and the politics of language
Christopher Highley	53	(14)
4 Macbeth and the rhetoric of political forms
Elizabeth Fowler	67	(20)
5 Hamlet's country matters: the 'Scottish play' within the play
Andrew Hadfield	87	(17)
6 How Scottish was 'the Scottish play'? Macbeth's national identity in the eighteenth century
Rebecca Rogers	104	(20)
7 The Bard: Ossian, Burns, and the shaping of Shakespeare
Robert Crawford	124	(17)
8 'Not fit to tie his brogues': Shakespeare and Scott
Lidia Garbin	141	(16)
9 Shakespeare goes to Scotland: a brief history of Scottish editions
Andrew Murphy	157	(15)
10 Citz Scotland where it did? Shakespeare in production at the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, 1970-74
Adrienne Scullion	172	(17)
11 Local Macbeth/global Shakespeare: Scotland's screen destiny
Mark Thornton Burnett	189	(18)
Index	207