Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_A fine warm afternoon in late winter. A green hillock at the edge of a ploughland. A peasant girl, with mischief in her movement, runs on, and looks from the hillock up and down the furrows. Then she fixes her gaze on some object in the distance, and after a moment sings_--
_A fine warm afternoon in late winter. A green hillock at the edge of a ploughland. A peasant girl, with mischief in her movement, runs on, and looks from the hillock up and dow...
2. SCENE II_A number of villagers are seated round the room, drinking, being served by the landlord, and_ NELL, _now the maid of the Inn_. BURNS _is standing on a chair, singing, all joini...
3. SCENE III_It is a cheerful, comfortable room, marked by the taste and culture of Edinburgh literary society at its best, with the elegance of fashion. A few portraits of Scots men of let...
4. SCENE IV_Seated round a table are_ LORD MUIR _and_ BALIOL WHITE, _a young spark of fashion_; SAM OGILVIE, _a flash but unprosperous ‘sport’_; NEIL SIMPSON, _a drab and dissolute little...
5. SCENE V_It is the general kitchen-living-room at the farm. It is fine and warm, and the door to the straw-littered yard is open. A girl is clearing away the evening meal, which has bee...
6. SCENE VI_Burns_: Why not? It’s true. They wouldn’t look at me across the street, lots of them, these months past. I don’t blame them. I’ve not played my game very well, Jean.