The Gentle Shepherd / / Allan Ramsay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Ramsay, Allan,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Allan Ramsay
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (631 p.) :; 7 B/W illustrations 7 black and white illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE --; ALLAN RAMSAY (c. 1684–1758) --; TEXT --; INTRODUCTION TO THE TEXT --; The Gentle Shepherd (1725) --; The Gentle Shepherd (1729) --; NOTES --; MUSIC --; INTRODUCTION TO THE MUSIC --; SOURCES FOR THE MUSIC --; THE MUSIC --; GLOSSARY --; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474479080; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738; 9783110780390
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474479080
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Allan Ramsay.

The first full and consistent edition of Allan Ramsay’s most influential text, The Gentle ShepherdRamsay’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.This scholarly edition includes:Ramsay’s text collated against all manuscripts and relevant printed editionsAll known contemporary sources for the music, showing how the tunes circulated in Ramsay’s own timeExtensive textual and musical introductions that situate the text within its various histories of composition, its political, historical, and literary contexts, and its reception