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The Phanaticks

The Phanaticks

Pitcairne, Archibald
Macqueen, John
Macqueen, John

Hardcover

Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth, Book 10

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ISBN10: 1897976356
ISBN13: 9781897976357
Publisher: Scottish Text Soc
Published: Dec 20 2012
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
First modern edition of a highly provocative Scottish drama.

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-known figures in thethinnest of disguises. Overtly a comedy about two young women opposed by such forces as the Governer of Edinburgh Castle (Lord Huffy), it is an excoriating attack on the hypocrisy and political chicanery of Scottish religious sects, alongside its romance and sexual innuendo. The author, Archibald Pitcairne, was a celebrated physician and wit; this work demonstrates his talent for controversy (he was ejected from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, an institution which he helped to found, after a dispute about his theoretical approaches to medicine). Indeed, so provocative was it deemed that despite being printed in 1722 and 1752, there is no record of any contemporary performance.

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