The complete online text of The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott.

The Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) is the acknowledged master of the historical novel. He was one of the most influential authors of modern times. Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh on August 15, 1771, the son of a lawyer with a...

Walter Scott was the most influential novelist in world literature. Relying on his capacious memory and drawing on medieval and Renaissance verse romance, his eighteenth-century forerunners in the novel, contemporary women writers of "national tales" and...

It must have snowed a lot in 16th-century Scotland.In Chas Rader-Shieber's new production of Rossini's "La Donna del Lago" at the New York City Opera, snow falls often on characters outside a dreary brick castle, bathed much of the time in aqua light. But when...

They could be called "the ladies of the trans-Atlantic Lake." Marin Mazzie of the Broadway company and Hannah Waddingham of the London cast will trade places as the Lady of the Lake in that merry medieval musical "Monty Python's Spamalot."On Jan. 13, Waddingham, who appeared...

It's a pleasure to celebrate Spamalot a lot. For one sensational thing, it has the silliest, riskiest opening number to any musical comedy I've seen.Enter a bow-tied historian with a map of England. "England 932 A.D.," the man announces solemnly. "A kingdom divided. To the...

Severe thunderstorms tore through central Florida early Friday, destroying mobile homes and a church, lifting a tractor-trailer into the air and killing at least two people, authorities said.Lake County sheriff's spokeswoman Christie Mysinger confirmed the deaths to WKMG-TV but did not say how they occurred....