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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... hand in altering and adapting some twenty - two plays of Shake- speare before and during his management of Drury Lane . Only twelve of these , however , can be authenticated . They include Antony and Cleo- patra , Cymbeline , Hamlet ...
... hand to try to illustrate a passage , I have thrown it down again with discontent when I remembered how able you were to clear that difficulty by a single look , or particular modulation of voice , which a long and laboured paraphrase ...
... hand in Shakespeare . Gar- rick's success with all his adaptations is attested by their continuing popularity long after he had left the stage . John Philip Kemble and the other great actor - managers to come all accepted Garrick's work ...
... 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 Macbeth and Banquo , with Soldiers and ...
... hand ! yet let that be Which the eye fears , when it is done , to see . KING . True , worthy Banquo : he is full so valiant , And in his commendations I am fed ; It is a banquet to me . Let us after him , Whose care is gone before to ...