Willy Maley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. Andrew Murphy is Reader in English Literature at the University of St Andrews
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Introduction - Willy Maley and Andrew Murphy
1. "Stands Scotland where it did?" Shakespeare on the march - David Baker
2. Wrapped in the strong arms of the Union: Shakespeare and King James - Neil Rhodes
3. The place of Scots in the Scottish play: 'Macbeth' and the politics of language - Christopher Highley
4. 'Macbeth' and the rhetoric of political forms - Elizabeth Fowler
5. 'Hamlet's country matters: The 'Scottish play' within the play - Andrew Hadfield
6. How Scottish was the Scottish play? 'Macbeth's national identity in the eighteenth century - Rebecca Rogers
7. The Bard: Ossian, Burns, and the shaping of Shakespeare - Robert Crawford
8. "Not fit to tie his brogues": Shakespeare and Scott - Lidia Garbin
9. Shakespeare goes to Scotland: A brief history of Scottish editions - Andrew Murphy
10. Citz Scotland where it did?: Shakespeare in production at the Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, 1970-1974 - Adrienne Scullion
11. Local 'Macbeth'/Global Shakespeare: Scotland's screen destiny - Mark Thornton Burnett
Shakespeare and Scotland is a collection of specially commissioned essays by major critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Together they explore, from a variety of critical perspectives, the playwright's place in Scotland, and the place of Scotland in his work.