5 ‘But to our tale’: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ on Stage

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 The Performance of Burns 1
4. 2 Performance and Print in Editions of Robert Burns in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries1 13
5. 3 Robert Burns and Theatre 30
6. 4 Burns and Music Hall 44
7. 5 ‘But to our tale’: ‘Tam o’ Shanter’ on Stage 66
8. 6 ‘O what a glorious sight’: Performing Identity and the Burns Supper 85
9. 7 Burns, Public Ceremonial and Civic Scotland, c.1796-c.1914 103
10. 8 Robert Burns on the Twentieth-Century Stage 120
11. 9 Burns and Film 137
12. 10 Orchestral Manoeuvres: Burns on the Concert Platform, 1879–1959 148
13. 11 Enactments and Representations of the National Bard: Burns and the Folk Context 164
14. 12 ‘Frae my ain countrie’: Robert Burns in the Archive of Jean Redpath 183
15. 13 Performing the Work of Robert Burns 198
16. Notes on Contributors 203
17. Index 206