How do most people experience dramatic narratives in the twenty-first century? The crucial
point is that in many parts of the world such narratives are all-pervasive, largely because of …

Scarcely any Scottish play-texts survive from before 1650. Yet pre-Reformation Scotland
abounded with words for theatrical and quasi-theatrical performance: pageant, sport and …

As Scotland began to reassess and reimagine itself in the light of political and constitutional
change following the end of 18 years of Conservative rule in 1997 and the subsequent vote …

History is the study of the past, but it is not simply the accumulation and laying out of
historical evidence. Historians' explanatory attempts change over time, to account for why …

While the 1660s saw the rebirth of English theatre, in Scotland it was virtually non-existent,
with only a few plays written for the London stage or private reading. Scholars of early drama …

[This chapter mentions a number of stage adaptations of work from other media. In order to
avoid confusion between characters, novels/poems and stage works all sharing the same …

In considering these tendencies of performance and Performance Studies. it would be
tempting to propose that Performance Studies has consolidated most clearly around those …

This issue of Studies in Theatre and Performance gathers together some models and
musings around the discipline of Performance Studies as it arises in the United Kingdom …

About the reception of new Scottish plays in London, the dramatist David Greig writes that
the critics there “feel most comfortable with Scottish work when it fits their understanding of …

It is becoming a cliché to observe that there has been a renaissance in Scottish theatre since
the 1970s (Brown 2007, 283). It is certainly true that many of the crosscurrents in …