Performing Robert Burns : enactments and representations of the 'National Bard' /

This book is unashamedly aimed at a wider market than the ordinary academic volume, as it seeks to extend the impact of the research it contains, making it available to the worldwide community of Burns enthusiasts, without compromising on scholarship.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Brown, Ian (Editor), Carruthers, Gerard (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Burns, Robert, > 1759-1796.
Burns, Robert, > 1759-1796
Performing arts.
Performance poetry.
Arts du spectacle.
Poésie-performance.
performing arts (discipline)
ART > Performance.
Performance poetry
Performing arts
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 1. The Performance of Burns
  • 2. Performance and Print in Editions of Robert Burns in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • 3. Robert Burns and Theatre
  • 4. Burns and Music Hall
  • 5. 'But to our tale': 'Tam o' Shanter' on Stage
  • 6. 'O what a glorious sight': Performing Identity and the Burns Supper
  • 7. Burns, Public Ceremonial and Civic Scotland, c.1796-c.1914
  • 8. Robert Burns on the Twentieth-Century Stage
  • 9. Burns and Film
  • 10. Orchestral Manoeuvres: Burns on the Concert Platform, 1879-1959
  • 11. Enactments and Representations of the National Bard: Burns and the Folk Context
  • 12. 'Frae my ain countrie': Robert Burns in the Archive of Jean Redpath
  • 13. Performing the Work of Robert Burns
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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