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Preface To Ssl 44.2, Tony Jarrells, Patrick Scott
Preface To Ssl 44.2, Tony Jarrells, Patrick Scott
Studies in Scottish Literature
A brief introduction to this special issue, including reference to earlier contributions on the topic in this journal.
Claimed By The Stage: Popular Dramatization And The Legacy Of The Lady Of The Lake, Mary Nestor
Claimed By The Stage: Popular Dramatization And The Legacy Of The Lady Of The Lake, Mary Nestor
Studies in Scottish Literature
Discusses three stage adaptations of Scott's poem The Lady of the Lake, by Thomas Dibdin for the Surrey Theatre, London, John Edmund Eyre, for the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, and Thomas Morton for Covent Garden, arguing that these popular melodramas shaped popular perception of how Scott's poem engaged the Highland landscape.
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Walter Scott And Comics, Christopher Murray
Walter Scott And Comics, Christopher Murray
Studies in Scottish Literature
A wide-ranging survey of the reworking of Scot's novels (and narrative poems) in comic form, in the US and UK.
John Byrne's The Slab Boys: Technicolored Hell-Hole In A Town Called Malice, William Donaldson
John Byrne's The Slab Boys: Technicolored Hell-Hole In A Town Called Malice, William Donaldson
Studies in Scottish Literature
Presents a detailed discussion and appreciation of the Slab Boys tetralogy, a sequence of four plays by the Scottish playwright and painter John Byrne, beginning with The Slab Boys (1978), focused on a group of apprentices in the color-mixing room of a Paisley carpet-factory in the 1950s, and then tracing the divergence of their lives through three later plays, The Loveliest Night of the Year (1979, later titled Cuttin' A Rug), Still Life (1982), and Nova Scotia (2008); examines Byrne's characterization, "excoriatingly destructive wit," and "rambunctiously demotic language"; analyzes the tetralogy's continuing major themes of the relation between art …