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Schools Conference: 2018

The papers presented at this Schools Conference were recorded by Education Scotland. The videos below can also be viewed on the Education Scotland YouTube page.

Scots Drama: an overview (Professor Ian Brown)

Click here to read Edwin Morgan’s article ‘Scottish Drama: an overview’, published in ScotLit 20 (1999).

Click here to read Chris Ravenhall’s article ‘Sixteenth-century agit-prop: Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satire of the Thrie Estaitis’, published in ScotLit 22 (2000).

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Professor Ian Campbell)

Click here for the Scotnote study guide Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Master of Ballantrae and The Ebb Tide.

Click here for the ASL Teaching Notes, including the Higher/Advanced Higher Teaching Note on The Shorter Fiction of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Click here to read Alastair Braidwood’s article ‘We’re All Henry Jekyll’s Bairns: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Enduring Influence on Scottish Literature’, published in The Bottle Imp 12.

William McIlvanney’s Detective Fiction: Laidlaw (Dr David Goldie)

Click here for the Scotnote study guide William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw.

Click here to read Beth Dickson’s article ‘William McIlvanney’s Laidlaw Novels’, published in Laverock 2.

Click here for the ASL Free Publications, including Tartan Noir, or Hard-Boiled Heidegger, which investigates the philosophical underpinnings of Tartan Noir with specific reference to Laidlaw.

Teaching Muriel Spark (Andrew Young)

Click here for the Scotnote study guide Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Click here to read the Muriel Spark Special Issue of The Bottle Imp.

Songs of Sir Walter Scott (The Sorries)