Wallace, the Hero of Scotland
Wallace, the Hero of Scotland is a drama in three acts by an anonymous author.
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The original text
Based on the life of William Wallace[1]. Nothing is known of the original play, but a version of a play by this title was published in Edinburgh by Hodgeson and Co, in 1822 in his series of "Juvenile Dramas"[2], i.e. the popular parlour entertainment for children in the early 19th. century, utilizing an illustrated images of scenes and characters from existing texts to be "produced" in a toy theatre[3].
Which suggests that a performance may have been done in Edinburgh at some time in the early 1820s and that some kind of text existed.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
(For more on contemporary responses to the performances, see the entry on the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot)
Sources
http://www.toytheatre.net/JKG-History-1.htm
Graeme Morton. 2014. William Wallace. A National Tale Edinburgh University Press[4]
Edward J. Cowan. 2007. The Wallace Book. Edinburgh: John Donald, E-book by Birlinn (2012)[5]
Archive Exhibition of Hodgson's Juvenile Drama: The British Stage in Miniature 1821-1840, held at the Guildhall Library in 2007[6]
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