The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre Quotes

“Baillie, therefore, was not necessarily so shy and retiring as the opinion quoted above (and shared by many) would suggest. Given her connections, she had little need to go out and mingle with 'the noise and bustle of the world astir'. She was plugged into a network of people whose ideas were shaped by Scottish and wider European Enlightenment thinking and who were ideologically and practically involved in a range of areas of reform: social, economic, educational, artistic, scientific, legal and political.”
― Clare Brennan, The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre

“Douglas, unlike Ramsay's Scots-language The Gentle Shepherd, is written in English: it participates linguistically in the mid-eighteenth-century anglicisation project within an elite post-Union Hanoverian settlement.”
― Ian Brown, The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre