The opening scene of Allan Ramsay's 'The Gentle Shepherd' by David Allan (1744-96)
The Gentle Shepherd is a pastoral comedy by Allan Ramsay. It was first published in 1725 and dedicated to Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton, to whom Ramsay gifted the original manuscript.
The play has some happy descriptive scenes and is a pleasant delineation of rustic manners in the countryside of the Scottish Lowlands in the 18th century. The backdrop is believed to have been inspired by the Penicuik area some eight miles south west of Edinburgh where Ramsay was frequently the guest of his patron Sir John Clerk of Penicuik at Penicuik House.
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TheGentleShepherd is a pastoral comedy by Allan Ramsay. It was first published in 1725 and dedicated to Susanna Montgomery, Lady Eglinton, to whom Ramsay...
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shepherd over her husband's house and his children. So all of you are shepherds, and every one of you is responsible for his herd." One of thegentle...
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in The Merchants o Renoun presentation of Allan Ramsay's TheGentleShepherd staged at the Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh, on Thursday 26th and Saturday...
dominate the Scottish stage. The existing repertoire of Scottish-themed plays included John Home's Douglas (1756) and Ramsay's TheGentleShepherd (1725)...
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air of the popular tune (by Boyce) GentleShepherd, tell me where, and the House laughed. Though few surpassed him in knowledge of the forms of the House...
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he illustrated TheGentleShepherd by Allan Ramsay and importantly much of Robert Burns' work. His grave was originally unmarked. The headstone was erected...
famous work Illustrations of theGentleShepherd. As a result he earned the title of "the Scottish Hogarth". By the end of the eighteenth century genre art...
literature. He also led the trend for pastoral poetry and his pastoral opera TheGentleShepherd was one of the most influential works of the era. Ramsay was...
successor, and Edmund Spenser spoke warmly of him in The Shepheardes Calender as the "gentleshepherd Algrind". Grindal was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury...
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dominate the Scottish stage. The existing repertoire of Scottish-themed plays included John Home's Douglas (1756) and Allan Ramsay's TheGentleShepherd (1725)...
sister-in-law Elizabeth Linley wrote some of the songs, and his wife Mary the music. His adaptation of TheGentleShepherd by Allan Ramsay, first performed on...
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have been performed like this. Also held at the NLS are a small number of early editions of TheGentleShepherd (1725) by Scottish poet Allan Ramsay which...
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