Dissolving into Scotland: National Identity in Dunsinane and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart

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Notes

1. David Grieg, The Yes /No Plays, 14 December 2013 < https://twitter.com/YesNoPlays> [accessed 16 September 2014].

2. Ibid.

3. David Grieg, ‘David Grieg: The Yes/No Plays’, National Collective, 2 February 2014 <http://nationalcollective.com/2014/02/02/david-greig-the-yesno-plays/> [accessed 18 October 2014].

4. David Greig, The Yes/No Plays, 14 December <https://twitter.com/YesNoPlays> [accessed 16 September 2014].

5. Gregory Smith, Scottish Literature: Character and Influence (London: MacMillan, 1919), p. 4.

6. Hugh MacDiarmid, Selected Essays, ed. by Duncan Glen (Oakland: University of California Press, 1970), p. 68.

7. Matthew Hart, ‘Nationalist Internationalism: A Diptych in Modernism and Revolution’, Journal of Modernism and Literature, 31.1 (2007), 21–46 (p. 33).

8. Steve Newman, ‘The Scots Songs of Allan Ramsay: “Lyrick” Transformation, Popular Culture, and the Boundaries of the Scottish Enlightenment’, Modern Language Quarterly, 63.3 (2002), 277–314.

9. Robert Crawford, On Glasgow and Edinburgh (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2013).

10. Edwin Muir, Uncollected Scottish Criticism (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1982), p. 105.

11. Cairns Craig, Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture (Edinburgh: Polygon, 1995).

12. See Alan Riach, ‘MacDiarmid’s Burns’, in Robert Burns and Cultural Authority, ed. by Robert Crawford (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997), pp. 198–215.

13. David Craig, Scottish Literature and the Scottish People, 1680–1830 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1961).

14. T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People 1560–1830 (London: Fontana, 1969); T. C. Smout, A Century of the Scottish People 1830–1950 (London: Fontana, 1986).

15. In essays collected in Tom Nairn, The Break-Up of Britain (London: Verso, 1977).

16. Craig, Out of History, pp. 9–10.

17. Carol Craig, The Scots’ Crisis of Confidence, 2nd ed (Argyll: Argyll Publishing, 2011).

18. David Greig, The Yes/No Plays, 1 January 2014 <https://twitter.com/YesNoPlays> [accessed 16 September 2014].

19. See The Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature, ed. by Ian Brown, Thomas Clancy, Susan Manning, and Murray Pittock, 3 vols (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1987–89); Duncan MacMillan, Scottish Art (Edinburgh: Mainstream, 1990; 2000); and Alexander Broadie, History of Scottish Philosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010).

20. See Tom Devine, The Scottish Nation 1700–2000 (London: Penguin, 2000); Tom Devine, Scotland’s Empire: The Origins of the Global Diaspora (London: Penguin, 2003); Tom Devine, To The Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora 1750–2010 (London: Penguin, 2011).

21. See Cairns Craig, The Modern Scottish Novel: Narrative and the National Imagination (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999) and Duncan Petrie, Contemporary Scottish Fictions: Film, Television and the Novel (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004).

22. See Trish Reid, Theatre & Scotland (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Drama, ed. by Ian Brown (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011).

23. Nadine Holdsworth, ‘Travelling across Borders: Re-imagining the Nation and Nationalism in Contemporary Scottish Theatre’, Contemporary Theatre Review, 13.2 (2010), 25–39 (p. 39).

24. David Greig, Dunsinane (London: Faber and Faber, 2010), p. 12. All further references are taken from this edition of the text.

25. Ibid., p. 12.

26. Ibid., p. 21.

27. Ibid., p. 24.

28. Ibid., p. 110.

29. Ibid., p. 112.

30. Ibid., p. 125.

31. David Greig, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (London: Faber and Faber, 2011), p. 5. All further references are taken from this edition of the text.

32. Ruth Perry, ‘Brother Trouble: Incest Ballads of the British Isles’, The Eighteenth Century, 47.2 (2006), 289–307 (p. 293).

33. Greig, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, p. 24.

34. Ibid.

35. Ruth Perry, ‘Brother Trouble’, p. 291.

36. Maureen M. McLaine, ‘Dating Orality, Thinking Balladry: Of Milkmaids and Minstrels in 1771’, Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 47.2 (2006), 131–49 (p. 131).

37. Greig, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, p. 62.

38. Ibid., p. 74.

39. Ibid., p. 10.

40. Ibid.

41. Ibid., p. 49.

42. David McCrone, ‘Cultural Capital in an Understated Nation: The Case of Scotland’, British Journal of Sociology, 56.1 (2005), 65–82 (p. 80).