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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... bring Shakespeare to the eigh- teenth - century public , an audience that demanded education while being entertained . I. Private Correspondence of David Garrick , I , 216–17 . 2 . 3 . Dramatic Miscellanies , II , 368 . Thomas Davies ...
... brings great news . The raven himself is hoarse , That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements . Come , all ye Spirits That tend on mortal thoughts , unsex me here , And fill me from the crown to th ' toe , top - full ...
... bring your courage to the proper place , And we'll not fail . When Duncan is asleep- ( Whereto the rather shall this day's hard journey Soundly invite him ) his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassel so convince That memory ( the ...
... bring the daggers from the place ? They must lie there . Go carry them and smear The sleepy grooms with blood . MACBETH . I'll go no more . I'm afraid to think what I have done ; Look on't again I dare not . LADY MACBETH . Infirm of ...
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