Robert Burns – NapaShakes

Haggis, neeps and soliloquys: the bonds that tie Robert Burns and Shakespeare

napashakes December 21, 2018 December 25, 2019Dramaturgy, Education, Influences On Other Authors, Literature, Poetry, Robert Burns 0

In anticipation of our upcoming Burns Night Supper on January 25, we share an article from 2016, reprinted with permission from “The Conversation” written by Gerard Carruthers,the Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow. Bard blood. Wikimedia Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow January 25, 2016 1.19am EST While Robert Burns…

Burns & the Bard

napashakes January 26, 2016 January 26, 2016Dramaturgy, Poetry, Will's World 0

Haggis, neeps and soliloquys: the bonds that tie Robert Burns and Shakespeare Gerard Carruthers, University of Glasgow While Robert Burns lovers celebrate their great advocate for the common man on January 25, this year’s whisky-and-haggis feast for the birth of the Scottish bard risks being upstaged by a big literary…