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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... Romeo and Juliet , 1748 The Fairies . An Opera , 1775 Catharine and Petruchio . A Comedy , 1756 Florizel and Perdita . A Dramatic Pastoral , 1756 The Tempest . An Opera , 1756 King Lear . A Tragedy , 1756 List of References Commentary ...
... Romeo and Juliet Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream Henry Woodward as Petruchio in Catharine and Petruchio frontis . 27 142 168 206 Playbill for Florizel and Perdita and Catharine and Petruchio 224 Mrs. Pritchard as Hermione in ...
... 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 were published individually during his lifetime as " Regularized from the ...
... Romeo and Juliet ( Romeo ) , and The Winter's Tale ( Leontes [ Florizel and Perdita ] ) . In addition he produced but did not act in All's Well That Ends Well , As You Like It , Henry VIII , Measure for Measure , The Merchant of Venice ...
... Romeo and Juliet . After reducing the amount of what was termed " Jingle and Quibble " in the text , he omitted all references to Romeo's first love , Rosaline , in order to idealize the young star - crossed lovers . Later revision ...