The 3 Estaites (Scots Edition) - Softcover

Alan Spence; David Lindsay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748617469 ISBN 13: 9780748617463

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2002

Synopsis

The 3 Estaites is - by common consent - Scotland's greatest play.First performed in Cupar, Fife in June 1552, it is the earliest Scottish play to have survived. Full of broad humour and pantomime-like farce, it also deals with dangerous topical issues, hitting out at corruption and hypocrisy in the ruling establishment, denouncing the oppression of the poor and calling for social 'reformation'. A young king is rescued from idle sexual dalliance and false counsels by Divine Correction and they preside over a Parliament summoned to enact just laws, where basic Christian tenets and values are affirmed - but Folly has the last word.In 2000 The 3 Estaites gained a fresh resonance when it celebrated both the Millennium and the rebirth of Scotland's Parliament by returning to Cupar for the first time in nearly four and a half centuries. This contemporary Scots version by the leading poet and playwright Alan Spence retains the structure and spirit of Lindsay's script while giving his language a new lease

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Review:

A compact, performable, modern version... Not only hilarious in itself but matches stroke for stroke the inherent bawdiness of Lindsay's script... A condensed version that loses nothing.

(The Herald)

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0748617469
• ISBN 13: 9780748617463
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136