The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

by John McGrath

Book Overview

Written during the 1970s, John McGrath's winding, furious, innovative play tracks the economic history and exploitation of the Scottish Highlands from the post-Rebellion suppression of the clans to the story of the Clearances: in the nineteenth century, aristocratic landowners discovered the profitability of sheep farming, and forced a mass emigration of rural Highlanders, burning their houses in order to make way for the Cheviot sheep. The play...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472531094
• ISBN13: 9781472531094
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"