This book investigates the impact of the ever-changing story of William Wallace on Scottish national identity. This updated edition of Graeme Morton`s William Wallace: Man and Myth looks at the Scottish warrior through the kaleidoscopic lens of `the national tale`. Here, Morton explores the mechanism by which Wallace`s afterlife has come to shape Scotland`s national identity. Morton goes back to original (and unreliable) sources and chronicles, showing how Wallace was transformed into the patriotic Protestant of the Reformation, the romantic 19th-century Scottish hero and Chief, and ultimately a British national symbol, far-removed from his early reputation as a blood-thirsty patriot. A stone likeness was first erected in 1814, a national monument completed in 1869, and innumerable geological sites are associated with his life and legacy. Today `memory` occurs also in print/books and, more recently in new technologies and the national stereotypes of the Hollywood machine. As an investigation of Wallace`s influence through history, this book extends, and nuances, our view of the man by looking at him through the concept of a national narrative, as a complex national mosaic and in equal measure personal hallucination as much as historical reality. It reappraises William Wallace as a national figure. It explores Wallace variously as: A Protestant, A Scottish Chief, A Romantic Hero, a Hollywood Hero. It examines Scotland`s obsession with the need for a national hero.