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The Three Estates - A Pleasant Satire in Commendation of Virtue and in Vituperation of Vice (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Three Estates - A Pleasant Satire in Commendation of Virtue and in Vituperation of Vice (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This is the first ever English translation of Sir David Lindsay's
masterpiece of 16th-century Scottish political theatre, Ane
Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in Commendatioun of Vertew
and Vituperatioune of Vyce. The work's importance lies in its
status as a well-known piece of national literature, and as a
historical document of interest to historians of Scottish and
European court politics.The verse translation available here is of
over 3,000 lines, in an edition which combines a historical and
critical introduction with the possibilities of modern performance.
Besides issues of text and translation, the introduction examines
the background of Scotland in 1552, the author and his audience,
the play's performance history and its position as a Renaissance
text. A work on a grand scale with a cast of over 40, the play
confronts and resolves the ill-counselled, misrule of young King
Humanity through the intervention, not only of King Correction and
of learned contemporaries, but also through the fearless
condemnations of the Poor Man and the political resolution of John
The Common Weal. Its conclusions are humanly centred, popularly
representative and yet strikingly realistic. They, and their manner
of expression, make an ideal object for the study of a society
poised between the pluralism of the Renaissance and the rigour of
the Reformation.
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