The Gentle Shepherd

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.

First Scottish opera

The Italian style of classical music was probably first brought to Scotland by the Italian cellist and composer Lorenzo Bocchi, who travelled to Scotland in the 1720s, introducing the cello to the country and then developing settings for lowland Scots songs. He possibly had a hand in the first Scottish opera, the pastoral The Gentle Shepherd, with libretto by the makar Allan Ramsay.[1]

Productions

An adaptation of The Gentle Shepherd by Robert Kemp was staged at the Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie during the Edinburgh International Festival in August 1949.[2]

The play was staged by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama as a Festival production at the Signet Library in August 1986.[3]

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Gentle Shepherd". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
  1. ^ R. Cowgill and P. Holman, "Introduction: centres and peripheries", in R. Cowgill and P. Holman, eds, Music in the British Provinces, 1690-1914 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), ISBN 0-7546-3160-5, p. 4.
  2. ^ Graves, Charles, "Drama", in Reid, J.M. (ed.) (1951), Some Scottish Arts: An Outline, Serif Books Ltd., Edinburgh, pp. 13 - 20
  3. ^ Edinburgh Festival Theatre Preview, The List, Issue 23, 22 August - 4 September, 1986, p. 13


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