Name: Maria Cholakova BA students of English 2nd year Faculty number: 0903041101 British POMO: Chief Assistant Yordan

Kosturkov Date: 10.02.12

Synopsis Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott

1771-1832 One of Sir Walter Scotts most celebrated novels, Rob Roy is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first Jocobite rising of 1715. Rob Roy is a swashbuckling chieftain of the Glan McGregor who is forced to become an outlaw for his alleged espousal of the Jacobite cause. He achieves great fame by his kindness to and symphathy for the poor and oppressed and his sought out by Francis Osbaldistone and his spirited sweetheart Diana Vernon in their desperate struggle with their hated kinsman, Rashleigh. Her father Sir Frederick, a proscribed Jacobite, lives there too in the guise of a monk, Father Vaughan. Sir Frederick has destined Diana for a convent unless she marries one of Sir Hildebrand's six sons. Diana, then, cannot listen to Frank's suit but, when Rashleigh flees to Scotland with vital financial documents, she assists him in his attempts to restore his father's honour and credit. Meanwhile, the Jacobite rebellion breaks out. Rashleigh, who has become an informer, is killed by Rob Roy. Rob Roy is a truly heroic tale set against the disorder surrounding the Honovarian succession.