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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... London , for permission to reproduce the title pages of the first edition of Gar- rick's plays ; the Folger and the Harvard Theatre Collection , the Theatre Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum , London , and the Trustees of the ...
... London would have pro- duced , from 1741 on , fifteen different editors and fifty different printings of the collected works , not to mention the prolific publication of the separate plays . Yet Garrick went beyond producing the plays ...
... London . An Interlude ( 1762 ) 10. The Clandestine Marriage . A Comedy ( 1766 ) II . Neck or Nothing . A Farce ( 1766 ) 12. Cymon . A Dramatic Romance ( 1767 ) 13. Linco's Travels . An Interlude ( 1767 ) 14. A Peep Behind the Curtain ...
... London on 2 March . Garrick enrolled as student at Lincoln's Inn on 9 March . censing Act . Jenkins's Ear . England declares war against Spain . Garrick's first play , Lethe ; or , Esop in the Shades , produced at Drury Lane , 1 April ...
... London . Garrick plays three perfor- mances at Drury Lane : Bayes , 26 May ; Lear , 28 May ; Rich- ard III , 31 May . Plays summer season at Smock Alley Theatre , Dublin . Returns to London as a mem- ber of the Drury Lane com- pany ...