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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... hath lost noble Macbeth hath won . Exeunt . 10 20 SCENE [ III ] changes to the heath . Thunder . The three Witches rise from under the stage . FIRST WITCH . Where hast thou been , sister ? SECOND WITCH . Killing swine . THIRD WITCH ...
... hath happily received , Macbeth , The news of thy success ; and when he reads Thy personal venture in the rebel's fight , His wonders and his praises do contend Which should be thine or his . Silenced with that , In viewing o'er the ...
... hath it given me earnest of success , Commencing in a truth ? I'm Thane of Cawdor . If good , why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth upfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature ...
... hath chanc'd ; and at more time , The interim having weighed it , let us speak Our free hearts each to other . BANQUO [ aside ] . Very gladly . MACBETH [ aside to Banquo ] . Till then , enough . - Come , friends . Exeunt . 10 20 SCENE ...
... hath a pleasant site . The air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses . BANQUO . This guest of summer , The temple - haunting martlet , does approve By his loved mansionry that heav'ns breath Smells wooingly here ...