Written at the very end of the seventeenth century, The Phanaticks (previously known as The Assembly) satirises in dramatic form contemporary political and religious affairs, presenting some well-know
This book is a resource on which all scholars interested in Older Scots can draw. It is interdisciplinary in ambition: those interested in literary form in Older Scottish literature will be provided
This volume contains eleven Scottish examples of particular kinds of humorous writing - comic, parodic, and satiric - of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Previously unavailable in modern sc
The "Maitland Quarto" is an anthology of some ninety-five poems, dating from the sixteenth century, and composed by members of the leading and influential Scottish Maitland family an
