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Author McGavin, John J., 1950-

Title Theatricality and narrative in medieval and early modern Scotland / John J. McGavin
Published Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 160 pages)
Series Studies in performance and early modern drama
Studies in performance and early modern drama.
Contents Introduction : a witness fit for purpose -- The public scene -- Enacting revenge -- Theatre of departure -- From David Lindsay to Skipper Lindsay -- The barren show
Summary John McGavin here analyses narrative accounts of public theatricality in late medieval and early modern Scottish culture (pre-1645). He shows that journals, memoirs and chronicles record events which were often ambiguous in genre, confrontational in action and aimed at both present and future 'spectators'. McGavin demonstrates that early Scottish culture is revealed as much in its processes of witnessing as in that which it claims to witness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-156) and index
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Subject English drama -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism
Scottish drama -- History and criticism
Theater -- Scotland -- History
DRAMA -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English drama -- Scottish authors
Scottish drama
Theater
Scotland
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780754686491
0754686493