IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 709: Scottish Drama and Ceremonial, I: Issues of Genre
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Records of Early Drama: Scotland |
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| Organiser: | John J. McGavin, Centre for Antiquity & the Middle Ages, University of Southampton |
| Moderator/Chair: | Eila Williamson, Department of Celtic & Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh |
| Paper 709-a | Masking and Politics: The Alison Craik Episode, Edinburgh, 1561 (Language: English) Index terms: Performance Arts - Drama |
| Paper 709-b | Theatricality, Textuality and Dissent (Language: English) Index terms: Performance Arts - Drama |
| Abstract | This session approaches late-medieval and early-modern Scottish theatricality from the viewpoint of genre. The first paper examines the complex of attitudes and cultural tensions aroused by the paradramatic game of masking, and explores a particular incident in terms of traditions of courtly masked visiting, and contemporary politics. The second paper, which uses chronicle, such as Bower’s Scotichronicon, memoir and record, explores textual accounts of theatrical dissent and considers how such witnesses control our understanding of paradramatic theatricality. The third paper, looking particularly at the Scottish comic traditions employed by Lindsay, will show how and why the genre of Lindsay’s Satyre was altered in its editing for Bannatyne’s compilatio manuscript. |