Abstract
This article traces the changing history of how the Scottish poet Robert Burns has been portrayed on stage, both in Scotland and elsewhere, discussing the the issues playwrights have faced and some of the approaches they have used, and provides an annotated chronological bibliography of ninety plays about Burns's life written or first staged between 1842 and 2019, with information on first known performance and on any published versions or known manuscript or typescript, and with brief notes where information is available on the style of the play and critical reaction.
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Keith, Thomas
(2022)
"Robert Burns’s Life on the Stage: A Bibliography of Dramatic Works, 1842–2019,"
Studies in Scottish Literature:
Vol. 47:
Iss.
2, 69–112.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol47/iss2/5