Drama

The Gentle Shepherd

by Allan Ramsay

Allan Ramsay, a wigmaker who became an Edinburgh bookseller, wrote this pastoral comedy in Scots in 1725, and it was acted, reprinted and loved all over Scotland for a hundred years. Ramsay is said to have opened the first circulating library in Britain, in 1725 or 1726. Burns counted him and Robert Fergusson as his masters in Scots verse.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 3 hr 45 min

Where to find it

The Burns Room

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #40639. In the public domain in the United States.