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Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis is the only extant play by the prolific poet Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount, and the only surviving dramatic text from pre‐Reformation Scotland. Acknowledged to be controversial in its own time, the play was devised in c. 1540, and reworked for performances in Cupar and Edinburgh in the 1550s. Its composition thus spans a particularly troubled period in Scottish history, and in its action Lyndsay examines the possibilities of political and religious reform with great contemporaneity. The play also explores the meta‐theatrical question of the ability of dramatic performance to facilitate social and governmental reform, and the capacity of theatre to influence the personal ethics of its audience. In order to explore these theatrical and moral issues Lyndsay creates a rich and sophisticated drama which draws on the tradition of the medieval morality play, contemporary European dramatic forms and his native Scots literary tradition

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