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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... half so well . " 1 Proving his " passionate desire to give the public as much of their admired poet as possible , " as Thomas Davies put it , 2 Garrick undertook during his twenty - nine years as manager of Drury Lane Theatre to produce ...
... half of them altered as after- pieces or other entertainment . Of these , only King Lear , which he played constantly from his first season , and the ill - fated Antony and Cleopatra were designed as mainpieces and treated in serious ...
... Half - Price Riots at Drury Lane and Covent Garden . Garricks tour the Continent 1763-65 . Garrick stricken with typhoid fever in Munich . Publication of The Sick Mon- Repeal of the Stamp Act . The letters of " xxiv CHRONOLOGY.
... of description , without saying half so much to the purpose " ( F. G. ) . 11.1 . Enter Lady Macbeth , from the castle . ] Enter Lady . 15. Heav'n - eyld ] God - eyld . 20 LADY MACBETH . All our service ( In every 18 MACBETH Act 1 , Scene ...
... . quickly ; if ] Garrick cuts two and a half lines : " if th ' assassination / Could trammel up the consequence , and catch / With its surcease , suc- cess ; that but ... " 20 First , as I am his kinsman and his Act 1 , Scene VII MACBETH ...