The Scottish Play (Lee Blessing play)
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The Scottish Play is a play by American
playwright
Lee Blessing
. It is set at a Shakespeare festival in Bannockburn, Michigan and examines the history of the "Scottish curse
" associated with Macbeth.
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playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
Lee Blessing
Lee Blessing
-Biography:Blessing's best-known play is A Walk in the Woods, which depicts the developing relationship between two arms limitation negotiators, one Russian and one American, over years of negotiation...
. It is set at a Shakespeare festival in Bannockburn, Michigan and examines the history of the "Scottish curse
The Scottish play
The Scottish Play and the Bard's play are euphemisms for William Shakespeare's Macbeth. The first is a reference to the play's Scottish setting, the second a reference to Shakespeare's popular nickname. According to a theatrical superstition, called the Scottish curse, speaking the name Macbeth...
" associated with Macbeth.