Boswell for the Defence (Supplement: TV Drama)

FAIN: GN-*1651-80

Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
William Peters (Project Director: September 1984 to March 1986)

Funding details:
Original grant (1980) $549,999.00
Supplement (1985) $29,194.00

To support the production of a 90-minute dramatization of an episode from from James Boswell's journals. By portraying Boswell's defense of John Reid against the charge of stealing sheep, the film explores the practice of law and the quality of justice in 18th-century Scotland.