As the clock strikes midnight and the world ushers in 2025, revelers around the globe will sing "Auld Lang Syne," a song about "old acquaintance be forgot" and, well, other lyrics people may not ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

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“I’m the Scottish expert on hell!” exclaimed folk-ballad academic expert Prudencia Hart in her thick Edinburgh accent. “And whatever it is, it is not a bed and breakfast!” It turns out that expertise ...

Though there's nary a kilt in sight, we have two Scottish companies in town: The National Theatre of Scotland at Santa Monica's Broad Stage and Glasgow's Visible Fictions at The Wallis in Beverly ...

1. Translated from the Originals, by R. C. ALEXANDER PRIOR, M. D. London: Williams & Norgate. Leipzig: R. Hartmann. 1860. 3 vols. pp. lx., 400, 468, 500. 2. By ROBERT ...

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(From left) Annie Grace, Melody Grove (Prudencia),Paul McCole, Alasdair Macrae, David McKay performing on instruments for The National Theatre of Scotland’s ‘The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.’ ...