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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... death . Hamlet , reclaimed from oblivion by the discovery of the " long lost " promptbook now at the Folger Shakespeare Library , has been uni- versally damned ; and yet it achieved thirty - four performances before Garrick's retirement ...
... James Quin com- pete in performance of Rowe's The Fair Penitent at Covent Garden , 14 November . Miss in Her Teens produced at Covent Garden , 17 January . 1748 1749 1751 Death of Frederick , Prince of Garricks CHRONOLOGY xxiii.
... Death of Frederick , Prince of Garricks set out for trip to 1753 1754 1755 Publication of Johnson's Dic- The Chinese Festival Riots at 1756 1760 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 1768 1769 1772 1773 1774 1775 1776 and Dr. Peace of Aix - la ...
... Death of Oliver Goldsmith . War of American Indepen- dence . The Dramatic Works of Da- vid Garrick published in two volumes by R. Bald , T. Blaw and J. Kurt . Drury Lane altered and deco- rated by the Adam Brothers . Garrick's sale of ...
... death And with his former title greet Macbeth . ROSSE . I'll see it done . KING . What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won . Exeunt . 10 20 SCENE [ III ] changes to the heath . Thunder . The three Witches rise from under the stage ...