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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... dead for breath , had scarcely more Than would make up his message . LADY MACBETH . Give him tending ; He brings great news . The raven himself is hoarse , That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements . Come , all ye ...
... dead , and wicked dreams abuse The curtained sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings , and withered murder , ( Alarmed by his sentinel the wolf , Whose howl's his watch ) thus with his stealthy pace , With Tarquin's ...
... dead Are but as pictures . ' Tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil . If he do bleed , I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal , For it must seem their guilt . 140 Exit . Knocks within . MACBETH . Whence is that knocking ...
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