The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, to which are Added the Alterations and Adaptations of the Plays of Shakespeare and Other Dramatists from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth CenturiesSIU Press, 1980 - 504 pages David Garrick's accomplishments as an actor, manager, and theatrical innovator brought him great fame and fortune, and his ideas influenced not only his own age but succeeding ages as well. Yet as a playwright, a part of the elegant combination of talents that was David Garrick, he has never achieved the critical reputation he richly deserves, in main because of the unavailability of texts and the lack of proper assessment of the historic importance of his plays in the English theatre. This first complete edition makes available to scholars and students all the plays of Garrick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. Contents: Macbeth. A Tragedy, 1744; Romeo and Juliet, 1748; The Fairies. An Opera, 1755; Catherine and Petruchio. A Comedy, 1756; Florizel and Perdita. A Dramatic Pastoral, 1756; The Tempest. An Opera, 1756; and King Lear. A Tragedy, 1756. |
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... RICHARD III . HAMLET . Folger Shakespeare Library THE PLAYS OF DAVID GARRICK A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE. MFGARRICK in Four of his Principal Tragic Characters . " Mr. Garrick in Four of his Principal Tragic Characters ". LEAR MACBETH .
... Lear , Macbeth , A Midsummer Night's Dream ( as an opera and as a drama ) , Romeo and Juliet ( altered three times ) , The Taming of the Shrew , The Tempest ( as an opera and as a drama ) , and The Winter's Tale . Of the twelve , nine ...
... Lear ( Lear ) , Macbeth ( Macbeth ) , Much Ado about Nothing ( Benedick ) , Othello ( Othello , Iago ) , Richard III ( Richard ) , Romeo and Juliet ( Romeo ) , and The Winter's Tale ( Leontes [ Florizel and Perdita ] ) . In addition he ...
... Lear , which he played constantly from his first season , and the ill - fated Antony and Cleopatra were designed as mainpieces and treated in serious fashion . King Lear retained the Nahum Tate happy ending demanded by his audiences ...
... Lear from a conviction that his audience will not accept any other , but with a determination to restore much of the original text and atmosphere . In Cymbeline and Antony and Cleopatra he brought the public much pure Shakespeare . As ...