The Devil to Stage - Five Plays by James Bridie

James Bridie is one of Scotland's greatest playwrights, and one of the leading British dramatists of the 20th century

His work is a celebration of the human spirit, its mixture of 'dirt and deity', the opposition of appearance and reality, the deflation of pretension and the investigation of moral dilemmas, all presented with irony, wit and serious levity

This collection of five acting scripts has been thoroughly corrected and re-set, and brings some of Bridie's greatest works back into the public domain

Dr Carruthers' extensive Introduction provides an essential critical background to Bridie's life and work, and the comprehensive Notes make the plays more accessible and enjoyable

The volume includes what is perhaps Bridie's most famous play The Anatomist, based on events in the life of Dr Robert Knox, the 19th-century Edinburgh anatomist who was supplied with bodies for dissection by the notorious Burke and Hare