Adaptations and Cultural References
The play Têtes rondes et Cavaliers (1833) by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine is based on Scott's novel. Vincenzo Bellini's opera I puritani (1835) is in turn based on that play.
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