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''[[The Shepherd of Ettrick Vale]]'' is the name given to a performance   
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According to the ''[[Cape Argus]]'' of 15 September 1863 (as cited by [[F.C.L Bosman]], 1980: p. 298), ''[[The Shepherd of Ettrick Vale]]'' is the name given to a performance  of some kind by the officers of the [[10th Regiment]] during September of 1863.
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One can only assume that the title is most probably a reference to the Scottish poet, novelist and essayist James Hogg (1770–1835)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogg], who was widely known as "The Ettrick Shepherd" of "The Shepherd of Ettrick Vale". However, no play by this specific name can be traced.
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The performance may thus have been either 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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One would assume that the title is most probably a reference to the Scottish poet, novelist and essayist James Hogg (1770–1835)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogg],  known as "The Ettrick Shepherd" of "The Shepherd of Ettrick Vale". However, no play by this bname can be traced.
 
  
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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.
 
  
  

Revision as of 06:48, 2 August 2019

According to the Cape Argus of 15 September 1863 (as cited by F.C.L Bosman, 1980: p. 298), The Shepherd of Ettrick Vale is the name given to a performance of some kind by the officers of the 10th Regiment during September of 1863.

One can only assume that the title is most probably a reference to the Scottish poet, novelist and essayist James Hogg (1770–1835)[1], who was widely known as "The Ettrick Shepherd" of "The Shepherd of Ettrick Vale". However, no play by this specific name can be traced.

The performance may thus have been either 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]

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