FURTHER READING (with National Library shelf marks)

• Bolton, H. Philip, Plays from Sir Walter Scott’s Narrative Poems and Novels for which playbills exist in the National Library of Scotland, H8.86.646
• Dibdin, James C. Annals of the Edinburgh Stage, Edinburgh, 1888, TheC.28
• Findlay, Bill (ed.), A History of Scottish Theatre, Edinburgh, 1998, TheC.28.F
• Mackenzie, Donald, Scotland’s first national theatre, Edinburgh, 1963, TheC.28.M
• Sketch of the history of the Edinburgh Theatre-Royal, prepared for this evening of its final closing, May 25, 1859, Edinburgh, 1859, 3.1697(4)
• Worth, Christopher, “‘A very nice Theatre at Edinr.’: Sir Walter Scott and Control of the Theatre Royal’, Theatre Research International 17, no. 2 (1992), 86-95, HJ4.1937

LINKS

Theatres and Theatre Companies
• Traverse Theatre. The Traverse focuses on new writing and the development of contemporary theatre in Scotland. An informative and up-to-date website.
  http://www.traverse.co.uk/
• Festival / King's Theatres. What’s on at two of Edinburgh’s leading theatres. Allows you to book online.
  http://www.eft.co.uk/
• Bedlam Theatre. The home of Edinburgh University Theatre Company, and a well-known Edinburgh venue for smaller productions.
  http://www.bedlamtheatre.co.uk/
• Royal Lyceum. Includes a history of this prestigious theatre and company, and provides current information about performances.
  http://www.lyceum.org.uk/frames/home00.html
• Royal Shakespeare Company. Information about one of Britain’s most famous touring theatre companies.
  http://www.rsc.org.uk/

Research sites
• Backstage. A database with information about collections relating to the performing arts throughout the UK.
  http://www.backstage.ac.uk/index_html
• Scottish Theatre Archive. Part of Glasgow University’s department of Special Collections, the Scottish Theatre Archive is a centre for theatre research. The site provides an expanding catalogue of the documents in the archive.
  http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/STA/index.html
• Plymouth Library's theatre archive. This library has digitised a wide range of photographs and images relating to the theatre in Plymouth.
  http://www.applausesw.org/

Of Interest
• Early American Secular Music and its European Sources
  http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/Biblio/B038764.htm
• The History of Tom Thumb by Susan Bauer
  http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/TTEssay.htm