“Ramsay ‘transformed the genre of the pastoral drama by bending it in a more “realistic” direction’. This is where Ramsay enters a rather heated and complicated British context.”
—Craig Lamont unpacks Allan Ramsay’s THE GENTLE SHEPHERD
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