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Description: | Robert Burns the Scottish Poet was born in a thatched Cottage in Alloway, Ayrshire in 1759, the son of a market gardener. Among his wealth of songs and poems was the cantata 'The Jolly Beggars' which was composed in 1785. This was said to have been influenced by John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'.
The engraving is by S. Warren after Sir William Allan, RA, 1823. The work has been described thus:- 'It has a breadth, truth and power which makes the famous scene in Auerbach's cellar of Goethe's ' Faust' seem artificial and tame beside it which are only matched by Shakespeare and Aristophanes'.
The characters in this work originally known as 'Love and Liberty,' depicts a group of vagabonds who roamed the countryside thieving and pilfering. A work considered often difficult to perform, in recent times been set to music by Cedric Thorpe Davie and performed throughout Scotland. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1823-01-01 - 1823-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Scene from Robert Burns' 'The Jolly Begg | Go to resource |
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