Queen of the May

By Joe Corrie

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£1.00

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ISBN:

978-0-85174-913-6

Acts:

1

Females:

4

Males:

2

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Scottish Play: No. 136

From Wikipedia, Joe Corrie (13 May 1894 – 13 November 1968) was a Scottish miner, poet and playwright best known for his radical, working-class plays.

He was born in Slamannan, Stirlingshire in 1894. His family moved to Cardenden in the Fife coalfield when Corrie was still an infant and he started work at the pits in 1908. He died in Edinburgh in 1968.

Shortly after the First World War, Corrie started writing. His articles, sketches, short stories and poems were published in prominent socialist newspapers and journals, including Forward and The Miner.

Corrie's volumes of poetry include The Image O' God and Other Poems (1927), Rebel Poems (1932) and Scottish Pride and Other Poems (1955). T. S. Eliot wrote "Not since Burns has the voice of Scotland spoken with such authentic lyric note".  He turned to writing plays during the General Strike in 1926.

More information can be found on his Wikipedia page; Joe Corrie.

 

When Liz Wilkie was crowned Queen of the May she became a very important person, in her own and her mother's opinion, and much to the annoyance of Nancy and Beinnie, her two sisters, she became the pet of the family. Her sweetheart, Rob Petrie, a young and manly riveter, comes to the house and gets the cold shoulder. He doesn't take it lying down, and although he gives the Queen of the May up, he doesn't go away empty handed.