Friday, June 23, 2017

Guy Mannering

Now reading Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering for the third time and am focusing on musical plays that immediately followed its publication..  I find it amusing that Daniel Terry's version flooded the stages with hundreds of songs not from Scott.  Henry Bishop's overture was highly popular and the production frequently concluded with an audience participation song There's nae luck about the house.  In spite of the marvelous characters Meg Merrilies and Dandie Dinmont, no film has been produced and I can only find one BBC radio drama. 

1 comment:

Annehueser said...

I haven't read it yet. I will download it to my kindle.