<P> Romanticism in Scotland took up Wallace after Robert Burns wrote in 1793 the ballad' Scots Wha Hae' and Scottish nationalists commemorated him in the Wallace Monument dedicated in 1869 . </P> <Ul> <Li> A well - known account of Wallace's life is presented in the film Braveheart (1995), directed by and starring Mel Gibson as Wallace, written by Randall Wallace, and filmed in Scotland and Ireland . The film was criticised for inaccuracies regarding Wallace's title, love interests, and attire . </Li> </Ul> <Li> A well - known account of Wallace's life is presented in the film Braveheart (1995), directed by and starring Mel Gibson as Wallace, written by Randall Wallace, and filmed in Scotland and Ireland . The film was criticised for inaccuracies regarding Wallace's title, love interests, and attire . </Li> <Ul> <Li> In the early 19th century, Walter Scott wrote of Wallace in Exploits and Death of William Wallace, the "Hero of Scotland". </Li> <Li> Jane Porter penned a romantic version of the Wallace legend in the historical novel The Scottish Chiefs (1810). </Li> <Li> G.A. Henty wrote a novel about this time period titled In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce (1885). Henty, a producer of and writer for the Boy's Own Paper story paper, portrays the life of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, The Black Douglas, and others, while dovetailing the events of his novel with historical fiction . </Li> <Li> Nigel Tranter wrote a historical novel titled The Wallace (1975), "admirably free of anything to do with Braveheart". </Li> <Li> The Temple and the Stone (1998), a novel by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris, includes a storyline creating a fictional connection between Wallace and Templar Knights . </Li> </Ul>

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