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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... heart and humanize the mind . SO WROTE David Garrick in his prologue for the opening of Drury Lane Theatre on 8 September 1750. His record for acting in and produc- ing Shakespeare plays during his long career on the stage proves that ...
... heart rather too horrid ; which no doubt is the reason that few female spectators like this piece . Indeed as the witches , though admirably written , are an insult on common sense ; and the ghosts , though well introduced , still more ...
... 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 Is smother'd in surmise and nothing ...
... heart . BANQUO . There if I grow The harvest is your own . KING . My plenteous joys , Wanton in fullness , seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow . Sons , kinsmen , Thane , And you whose places are the nearest , know We will ...
... heart , and farewell . ” Glamis thou art , and Cawdor - and shalt be What thou art promised . Yet do I fear thy nature . It is too full o ' th ' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way . Thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ...