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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... doth come ! ALL . The weyward sisters hand in hand , Posters of the sea and land , Thus do go about , about ; Thrice to thine , and thrice to mine , And thrice again to make up nine . Peace ! The charm's wound up . A march . Enter ...
... doth upfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ? Present feats Are less than horrible imaginings . My thought , whose murder yet is but fantastical , Shakes so my single state of man that function ...
... doth seem To have thee crowned withal . What are your tidings ? Enter Messenger . MESSENGER . The King comes here tonight . 30 LADY MACBETH . Thou'rt mad to say it . Is not thy master with him ? who , were it so , Would have informed ...
... doth know . End of the FIRST ACT . Exeunt . ACT II . SCENE [ I ] , a hall in Macbeth's castle . Enter Banquo , and Fleance with a torch before him . BANQUO . How goes How goes the night , boy ? FLEANCE . The moon is down ; I have not ...
... doth murder sleep " -the innocent sleep , 77. " The Scene of the murder is most admirably calculated for action , and should be played in a tremulous , under tone of voice , with a strong exertion of horror struck features , on the part ...