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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... Hear not my steps which way they walk , for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time , Which now suits with it .- ( A bell rings . ) I go , and it is done . The bell invites me . Hear it not ...
... hear a noise ? LADY MACBETH . I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry . Did you not speak ? MACBETH . When ? LADY MACBETH . Now . MACBETH . As I descended ? LADY MACBETH . Ay . 90 MACBETH . Hark ! -Who lies i ' th ' second chamber ...
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