English Pastoral Drama: From the Restoration to the Date of the Publication of the "lyrical Ballads" (1660-1798) |
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... Shepherd , and Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd exceed in beauty and appropriateness any other English pastorals . Other plays , all less significant than the Aminta , went to swell the dramatic chorus of the last half of the sixteenth ...
... Shepherd , and Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd exceed in beauty and appropriateness any other English pastorals . Other plays , all less significant than the Aminta , went to swell the dramatic chorus of the last half of the sixteenth ...
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... Gentle Shepherd , written almost a century later than the Sad Shepherd , point to an English school of pastoralists . But their primacy and isolation in the pastoral world show , as we look more deeply into the nature of English drama ...
... Gentle Shepherd , written almost a century later than the Sad Shepherd , point to an English school of pastoralists . But their primacy and isolation in the pastoral world show , as we look more deeply into the nature of English drama ...
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... Shepherd and Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd . Dishes of apples , nuts , and cheese , and many another homely article , are introduced . Whether or not these authors knew the classics , they knew their Spenser , as the following passage ...
... Shepherd and Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd . Dishes of apples , nuts , and cheese , and many another homely article , are introduced . Whether or not these authors knew the classics , they knew their Spenser , as the following passage ...
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... Gentle Shepherd the only sound piece of dramatic pastoral literature which the eighteenth century produced . For that reason the play is unique . Shepherd , " 1725 . Ramsay writes the Gentle Shepherd in the Scots dialect , which does ...
... Gentle Shepherd the only sound piece of dramatic pastoral literature which the eighteenth century produced . For that reason the play is unique . Shepherd , " 1725 . Ramsay writes the Gentle Shepherd in the Scots dialect , which does ...
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... shepherd's village and fields , some few miles from Edinburgh , the time of action within twenty - four hours . Although Ramsay is original in his poetic strain , he is conventional in his use of plot . Patie , the Gentle Shepherd , is ...
... shepherd's village and fields , some few miles from Edinburgh , the time of action within twenty - four hours . Although Ramsay is original in his poetic strain , he is conventional in his use of plot . Patie , the Gentle Shepherd , is ...
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