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Representations of Burns

Performing Robert Burns: Enactments and Representations of the ʻNational Bard’

Edited by Ian Brown and Gerard Carruthers Edinburgh University Press, 2021 224 pages Hardback, £75.00 ISBN: 9781474457149

This book sets out to demonstrate how the work of Robert Burns has been performed during his lifetime and afterwards.

Edited by Ian Brown and Gerard Carruthers, it is a collection of

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