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Shakespeare and Scotland is a timely collection of new essays in which leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic address a neglected national context for an exemplary body of dramatic work too often viewed within a narrow English milieu or against a broad British backdrop.
These essays explore, from a variety of critical perspectives, 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 Shakespeare's work had on the development of Scottish literature, from the Globe to globalisation, and from Captain Jamy and King James to radical productions at the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow.
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction - Willy Maley and Andrew Murphy
1. "Stands Scotland where it did?" Shakespeare on the march - David Baker
2. Wrapped in the strong arms of the Union: Shakespeare and King James - Neil Rhodes
3. The place of Scots in the Scottish play: 'Macbeth' and the politics of language - Christopher Highley
4. 'Macbeth' and the rhetoric of political forms - Elizabeth Fowler
5. 'Hamlet's country matters: The 'Scottish play' within the play - Andrew Hadfield
6. How Scottish was the Scottish play? 'Macbeth's national identity in the eighteenth century - Rebecca Rogers
7. The Bard: Ossian, Burns, and the shaping of Shakespeare - Robert Crawford
8. "Not fit to tie his brogues": Shakespeare and Scott - Lidia Garbin
9. Shakespeare goes to Scotland: A brief history of Scottish editions - Andrew Murphy
10. Citz Scotland where it did?: Shakespeare in production at the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, 1970-1974 - Adrienne Scullion
11. Local 'Macbeth'/Global Shakespeare: Scotland's screen destiny - Mark Thornton Burnett