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Ane Satyre Of The Thrie Estaitis
by Sir David Lindsay
ISBN: 9780862411916
Imprint: Canongate Classics
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Format: Paperback
Price: £5.99
Stock Status: in stock
The Three Estaitis was first performed in the mid-sixteenth century to an audience of royalty and commoners alike. With its high style and penetrating political satire, it pressed for reform in Church and State and even in kingship itself with a hilarious masque of vice and corruption in high places.
Sir David Lindsay of the Mount was born about 1485. The son of a Fife laird, Lindsay served for most of his life at the Scottish Court, as usher to the young James V, as Snowdon Herald, and eventually as Lyon King of Arms. While the nature and extent of Lindsay’s commitment to Protestantism is a matter for debate, there is no mistaking the vigour of his condemnation of ecclesiastical misconduct, or the dramatic skill with which he brings his arguments to life. The Three Estaitis was successfully revived by Tyrone Guthrie, in an acting edition by Robert Kemp, for the Edinburgh Festival of 1948, and there have been several subsequent productions.
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