Wandering Willie's Tale | Media Adaptations

• The French Romantic poet and dramatist Alfred de Musset adapted ‘‘Wandering Willie’s Tale’’ into a French stage play called La Quittance du Diable [The Devil’s Receipt] in 1830, but the play was not produced owing to revolutionary disturbances that year in Paris. A production was mounted in Avignon, France, in 1998.

• There have been several stage and operatic adaptations of Redgauntlet, the novel containing ‘‘Wandering Willie’s Tale,’’ including English stage productions in 1824, 1825, and 1872, the last named being in Dundee, Scotland...

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