Line #28 Creator/WalterScott


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3	->''"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."''
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5	Walter Scott (later Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet; 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a 19th-century author of best-selling historical novels, many set in his native UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}. He also wrote plays, poems, short stories, and non-fiction.
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7	His best-known works include ''Literature/{{Waverley}}'', ''Literature/RobRoy'', ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'' (which guest-starred Myth/RobinHood and had a significant effect on subsequent portrayals), and ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' (which was adapted into a famous opera). Before venturing into prose fiction, which he published anonymously (although his identity was a poorly-kept secret), Scott was a bestselling narrative poet. His later novels were composed under the combined strain of bankruptcy and severe illness.
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9	Arguably the most famous and influential novelist of the nineteenth century, frequently imitated across Europe and in the United States. Among the novelists owing him a profound debt: Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper, Creator/CharlesDickens, Creator/GeorgeEliot, Alessandro Manzoni, and Creator/LeoTolstoy.
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11	Notoriously, Creator/MarkTwain "sank" Scott in ''Literature/HuckleberryFinn.''
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14	!!Works by Walter Scott:
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18	[[folder: Poems]]
19	* ''The Chase, and William and Helen: Two Ballads, translated from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürger'' (1796)
20	* ''Glenfinlas'' (1800)
21	* ''Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border'' (1802-03)
22	* ''The Lay of the Last Minstrel'' (1805)
23	* ''Ballads and Lyrical Pieces'' (1806)
24	* ''Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field'' (1808)
25	* ''The Lady of the Lake'' (1810)
26	* ''The Vision of Don Roderick'' (1811)
27	* ''The Bride of Triermain'' (1813)
28	* ''Rokeby'' (1813)
29	* ''The Field of Waterloo'' (1815)
30	* ''The Lord of the Isles'' (1815)
31	* ''Harold the Dauntless'' (1817)
32	* ''Bonnie Dundee'' (1825)
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35	[[folder: Plays]]
36	* ''Goetz of Berlichingen, with the Iron Hand: A Tragedy'' (1799): A translation of Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe's ''Theatre/GotzVonBerlichingen''
37	* ''Halidon Hill'' (1822)
38	* ''[=MacDuff=]'s Cross'' (1823)
39	* ''The Doom of Devorgoll'' (1830)
40	* ''Auchindrane'' (1830)
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43	[[folder: Novels]]
44	* ''Literature/{{Waverley}}'' (1814)
45	* ''Literature/GuyMannering'' (1815)
46	* ''The Antiquary'' (1816)
47	* ''The Black Dwarf'' (1816)
48	* ''Literature/OldMortality'' (1816)
49	* ''Literature/RobRoy'' (1817)
50	* ''The Heart of Mid-Lothian'' (1818)
51	* ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' (1819)
52	* ''A Legend of Montrose'' (1819)
53	* ''Literature/{{Ivanhoe}}'' (1819)
54	* ''Literature/TheMonastery'' (1820)
55	* ''The Abbot'' (1820)
56	* ''Literature/{{Kenilworth}}'' (1821)
57	* ''Literature/ThePirate'' (1821-22)
58	* ''The Fortunes of Nigel'' (1822)
59	* ''Peveril of the Peak'' (1822)
60	* ''Quentin Durward'' (1823)
61	* ''St. Ronan's Well'' (1824)
62	* ''Redgauntlet'' (1824)
63	* ''The Betrothed'' (1825)
64	* ''The Talisman'' (1825)
65	* ''Woodstock'' (1826)
66	* ''Chronicles of the Canongate'' (1827): Contains two short stories and a novel published together
67	* ''The Fair Maid of Perth'' (1828)
68	* ''Anne of Geierstein'' (1828)
69	* ''Count Robert of Paris'' (1832)
70	* ''Castle Dangerous'' (1832)
71	* ''The Siege of Malta'' (written between 1831-32, first published in 2008)
72	* ''Bizarro'' (unfinished, first published in 2008)
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75	[[folder: Short stories]]
76	* ''The Inferno of Altisidora'' (1811)
77	* ''Christopher Corduroy'' (1817)
78	* ''Alarming Increase of Depravity Among Animals'' (1818)
79	* ''Phantasmagoria'' (1818)
80	* ''The Keepsake Stories'' (1828): Three short stories published together
81	* ''A Highland Anecdote'' (1832)
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84	!!Adapted works with their own trope pages:
85	* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfQuentinDurward''
86	* ''Film/{{Ivanhoe}}''
87	* ''Film/RobRoy''
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90	!!Walter Scott's other works provide examples of:
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92	* AlternateHistory: ''Redgauntlet'', set during an imagined third Jacobite rebellion.
93	* AbsentMindedProfessor: ''The Antiquary.''
94	* AffablyEvil: Claverhouse in ''Old Mortality,'' although Scott doesn't treat him as a full-blown monster.
95	* BarSinister (TropeMaker)
96	* BenevolentBoss: It is mentioned in ''Wandering Willie's Tale'' that for all Sir Robert's brutal actions against the Covenanters, he was never a bad master to his own people, and well liked by tenants and servants alike.
97	* CharacterTitle: Quite a few, including ''Guy Mannering'', ''Waverley'', ''Ivanhoe'', and ''Quentin Durward''.
98	* DarkIsNotEvil
99	* DirectLineToTheAuthor: Nearly all of the novels are supposedly "written" or "edited" by somebody other than Scott, with Scott the recipient of (and literary agent for) the results. The best-known of these editorial personae are Jedediah Cleishbotham, Captain Clutterbuck, Chrystal Croftangry, and Peter Pattieson.
100	* EpistolaryNovel: For part of ''Redgauntlet.''
101	* TheFundamentalist: Scott had little patience for this in any form. Examples:
102	** ''The Heart of Midlothian'': Davie Deans (who eventually arrives at a grudging truce with his more moderate son-in-law).
103	** ''Old Mortality'': The Covenanters.
104	* FunetikAksent: Scott kindly provided glossaries.
105	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Everywhere. For example:
106	** John Graham of Claverhouse in ''Old Mortality.''
107	** Rob Roy [=MacGregor=] in ''Rob Roy''.
108	** Queen Caroline and the Duke of Argyle (Argyll) in ''The Heart of Midlothian.''
109	** UsefulNotes/MaryOfScotland in ''The Abbot.''
110	** UsefulNotes/ElizabethI, Amy Robsart, and the Earl of Leicester in ''Kenilworth.''
111	** Louis XI of France in ''Quentin Durward.''
112	** Charles Edward Stuart (the "Young Pretender") in ''Redgauntlet.''
113	** UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart in ''Ivanhoe''.
114	* LadyMacbeth: Lady Ashton in ''The Bride of Lammermoor.''
115	* LargeHam: Chesterton defended him from the charge that to many of his characters were {{Large Ham}}s by pointing out that that was what made them great characters.
116	* MySecretPregnancy: The aftermath of a concealed pregnancy drives the plot in ''The Heart of Midlothian.''
117	* TheOphelia: Lucy Ashton in ''The Bride of Lammermoor''; Madge Wildfire in ''The Heart of Midlothian.''
118	* PinballProtagonist: One of Scott's calling cards is the passive protagonist, who often spends most of the novel being carted around by the ActionHero. The best-known examples are the title characters in ''Waverley'' and ''Ivanhoe'' (the latter famously spends a battle sequence flat on his back in a tower, unable to see anything that's going on). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the protagonist of ''The Abbot,'' who, after being hit with a WhatTheHellHero, points out with considerable exasperation that he hasn't the slightest clue what's going on, or what he's supposed to be doing.
119	* PropheciesAreAlwaysRight: ''The Bride of Lammermoor.''
120	* PublicDomainCharacter: The magician Michael Scott in ''Lay of the Last Minstrel''.
121	* ScrapbookStory: ''Redgauntlet'' combines third-person POV with an epistolary novel, then adds the inset story "Wandering Willie's Tale" for good measure. (That last is now better-known than the novel itself.)
122	* ShoutOutToShakespeare: Several, including ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' (Isaac and Rebecca in ''Ivanhoe'') and ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' (much of ''The Bride of Lammermoor'').
123	* SplitHair: In ''The Talisman'', Saladin demonstrates the sharpness of his [[CoolSword Saracen sword]] by dropping a cushion onto it, which is neatly sliced in half.
124	* ToHellAndBack: "Wandering Willie's Tale."
125	* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: ''The Heart of Midlothian'' and ''The Bride of Lammermoor.''
126	* WhatMeasureIsAMook
127	* WorthyOpponent: One of his calling cards was to have decent people of differing races and religions and even on the opposite sides of a war.

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