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en-wikipedia-org-5054		Theatre of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6744	490	68	It may have been this persecution which drove Home to write for the London stage, in addition to Douglas' success there, and stopped him from founding the new Scottish national theatre that some had hoped he would.[14] Walter Scott was keenly interested in drama, becoming a shareholder in the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.[16] Baillie's Highland themed Family Legend was first produced in Edinburgh in 1810 with the help of Scott, as part of a deliberate attempt to stimulate a national Scottish drama.[17] Scott also wrote five plays, of which Hallidon Hill (1822) and MacDuff's Cross (1822), were patriotic Scottish histories.[16] Adaptations of the Waverley novels, largely first performed in minor theatres, rather than the larger Patent theatres, included The Lady in the Lake (1817), The Heart of Midlothian (1819), and Rob Roy, which underwent over 1,000 performances in Scotland in this period.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5054.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5054.txt