Performing Robert Burns : enactments and representations of the 'National Bard' / edited by Ian Brown, Gerard Carruthers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Ian, Author.

Contributor:

Brown, Ian, 1945 February 28- editor.

Carruthers, Gerard, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796.

Burns, Robert.

Performing arts.

Performance poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This text 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.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 5, 2022).

ISBN:

1-4744-5717-7

1-4744-9580-X

1-4744-5716-9

OCLC:

1244812365