TY - BOOK AU - Ramsay,Allan TI - The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy AV - PR PY - 2012/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Scottish drama -- 18th century N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentle_Shepherd; Release date is 2012-09-01; Produced by Bryan Ness, Katie Hernandez and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy" by Allan Ramsay is a pastoral comedy first published in 1725. Set in the Scottish Lowlands countryside, the play depicts rustic life and manners through descriptive scenes inspired by the Penicuik area near Edinburgh. Possibly Scotland's first opera, it features a libretto by Ramsay with musical settings potentially influenced by Italian composer Lorenzo Bocchi, who introduced classical Italian musical style to Scotland in the 1720s. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40639 ER -