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| + | The performance thus may have either been a reading of the poems and/or stories of "The Ettrick Shepherd", or it was a performance of a play called ''[[The Rose of Ettrick Vale]]'', which was popular among the British militia in the Cape Colony in the 1860s. | ||
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The Shepherd of Ettrick Vale is the name given to a performance
One would assume that the title is most probably a reference to the Scottish poet, novelist and essayist James Hogg (1770–1835)[1], known as "The Ettrick Shepherd" of "The Shepherd of Ettrick Vale". However, no play by this bname can be traced.
The performance thus may have either been a reading of the poems and/or stories of "The Ettrick Shepherd", or it was a performance of a play called The Rose of Ettrick Vale, which was popular among the British militia in the Cape Colony in the 1860s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogg
Charles Rogers. 1809. Ettrick Forest, the Ettrick Shepherd, and his monument. John Menzies, Ediburgh [2]
Edinburgh Dramatic Review, Volumes 3-5[3]
