ABSTRACT
The proportion of school pupils who proceeded to the university was enormously greater in Scotland than in England. Drama in Scotland was still in a rudimentary stage when the Reformation suppressed it. In Scotland that stream ran strong and deep, and it formed one of the main tributaries of the Romantic movement. In addition, many farmers, shepherds, and weavers in Scotland studied books of a kind that would have been Greek to their opposite numbers in England. But the intensity and the significance of these movements, to which there is nothing really corresponding in Scotland except Community Drama and, doubtfully, An Comunn Gaidhealach, have to be considered. Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, Catalonia, are other countries of which it might be said that literature had meant more to them than to Scotland, since for them it had formed an effective bond of national unity.
