Ian Brown is a playwright, poet and Professor of Drama at Kingston University, London. Until recently Chair of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, he was General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Scottish Theatre (2007) and editor of From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth (2010) and The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama (2011). He has published widely on theatre, cultural policy and literature and language.

"Brown’s exceptional range of experience as playwright, academic and senior administrator with the Arts Council, makes this an immensely rewarding study. It enriches our understanding of theatre practice and theatre history both within and beyond Scotland." – Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London"Ian Brown’s monograph follows The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama he edited in 2011, and taken together, these books amount to a thorough and radical rethinking of the traditions of Scottish plays, performances, dramatic and theatrical structures and engagements through history, how we have encountered them, and how we might read them with fresh interest and deeper sympathy and understanding" – Alan Riach, Glasgow, in: The Bottle Imp 15 (2014) [Full review]

• AcknowledgementsLiterary tradition and diversity of languageHybridity and cultural gravity: crossing boundaries in Scottish culturesScots language: personal, political, social and commercialThe historiography of Scottish drama and public performancePublic enactments, gender, community and languageTwentieth-century drama, innovation and the Scots leidBorder-crossing, popular theatre and performative modesDiversification, language, gender and sexualityRethinking dramaturgyAppendix: The box-office appeal of new plays in Scots – some reflectionsIndex

Ian Brown is a playwright, poet and Professor of Drama at Kingston University, London. Until recently Chair of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, he was General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Scottish Theatre (2007) and editor of From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth (2010) and The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama (2011). He has published widely on theatre, cultural policy and literature and language.

"Brown’s exceptional range of experience as playwright, academic and senior administrator with the Arts Council, makes this an immensely rewarding study. It enriches our understanding of theatre practice and theatre history both within and beyond Scotland." – Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London"Ian Brown’s monograph follows The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama he edited in 2011, and taken together, these books amount to a thorough and radical rethinking of the traditions of Scottish plays, performances, dramatic and theatrical structures and engagements through history, how we have encountered them, and how we might read them with fresh interest and deeper sympathy and understanding" – Alan Riach, Glasgow, in: The Bottle Imp 15 (2014) [Full review]

• AcknowledgementsLiterary tradition and diversity of languageHybridity and cultural gravity: crossing boundaries in Scottish culturesScots language: personal, political, social and commercialThe historiography of Scottish drama and public performancePublic enactments, gender, community and languageTwentieth-century drama, innovation and the Scots leidBorder-crossing, popular theatre and performative modesDiversification, language, gender and sexualityRethinking dramaturgyAppendix: The box-office appeal of new plays in Scots – some reflectionsIndex

Ian Brown is a playwright, poet and Professor of Drama at Kingston University, London. Until recently Chair of the Scottish Society of Playwrights, he was General Editor of the Edinburgh History of Scottish Theatre (2007) and editor of From Tartan to Tartanry: Scottish Culture, History and Myth (2010) and The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama (2011). He has published widely on theatre, cultural policy and literature and language.

"Brown’s exceptional range of experience as playwright, academic and senior administrator with the Arts Council, makes this an immensely rewarding study. It enriches our understanding of theatre practice and theatre history both within and beyond Scotland." – Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London"Ian Brown’s monograph follows The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama he edited in 2011, and taken together, these books amount to a thorough and radical rethinking of the traditions of Scottish plays, performances, dramatic and theatrical structures and engagements through history, how we have encountered them, and how we might read them with fresh interest and deeper sympathy and understanding" – Alan Riach, Glasgow, in: The Bottle Imp 15 (2014) [Full review]

• AcknowledgementsLiterary tradition and diversity of languageHybridity and cultural gravity: crossing boundaries in Scottish culturesScots language: personal, political, social and commercialThe historiography of Scottish drama and public performancePublic enactments, gender, community and languageTwentieth-century drama, innovation and the Scots leidBorder-crossing, popular theatre and performative modesDiversification, language, gender and sexualityRethinking dramaturgyAppendix: The box-office appeal of new plays in Scots – some reflectionsIndex