The Gentle Shepherd
Allan Ramsay author David McGuinness editor Steve Newman editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:21st Apr '22
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Ramsay’s pastoral comedy The Gentle Shepherd (1725; 1729) went through over a hundred editions, was performed many hundreds of times, and inspired a wide range of visual representations and critiques. Although it is one of the most important printed texts in Scots literature, there has never been a scholarly edition which does justice to its complicated genesis, and to the music of its many songs. This groundbreaking and definitive edition will be welcomed by scholars, teachers, and practitioners of literature, drama and music, and opens up new avenues for research and performance.
The edition is the outcome of a fruitful interdisciplinary collaboration between Newman and McGuinness, experts in the fields of Scottish literary studies and Scottish music respectively. The result of meticulous archival and collections based research, it represents The Gentle Shepherd in all its textual and musical variance. [...] With this edition of The Gentle Shepherd, Newman and McGuinness have taken the first step towards this series’ goal to ‘take [Ramsay] seriously as an editor and literary innovator as well as an author’ and to ‘help him reclaim the central place in the development of the literature of Scotland which is his due’ (p. xvi). -- Kwinten Van De Walle, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics * Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society *
ISBN: 9781474479073
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631 pages