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  • Print publication year: 2004
  • Online publication date: March 2008

2 - Faith, pastime, performance and drama in Scotland to 1603

from PART I - PRE-ELIZABETHAN THEATRE
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From the fifteenth century, the major Scottish towns enjoyed a rich diet of both processional and static events involving theatrical elements in tableau or scripted form at Corpus Christi. Particularly in the poetry of Dunbar, but also in the 'Christis Kirk' genre, and Gavin Douglas's The Palice of Honour, one can find direct references to play events and descriptions of them, together with allusions, echoes, satires, imitations and evocations of the world of play. A visual imagination which draws poetic and theatrical traditions together shows up in the penchant for set-piece scenes of observed and interpreted spectacle in non-dramatic Scots writing of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. This cross-fertilisation of poetry and play goes some way to compensate for the country's lack of playtexts, but it also creates an impression of Scottish cultural homogeneity centred on pastime, performance and drama.

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