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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... natural beauty of his imagery , than for the happy choice of his sub- jects ; which , however , disdaining the fetters of rule , he often sported with strangely . In the tragedy immediately before us , he is more regular than in many ...
... nature Do swarm upon him ) from the western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses was supplied , And Fortune , on his damned quarrel smiling , Showed like a rebel's whore . But all too weak . For brave Macbeth ( well he deserves that name ) ...
... 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 is But what is not . BANQUO . Look how our ...
... nature . It is too full o ' th ' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way . Thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition , but without The illness should attend it . What thou wouldst highly , That wouldst thou holily ...
... nature Shake my fell purpose nor keep peace between Th ' effect and it ! Come to my woman's breasts And take my milk for gall , ye murdering ministers , Wherever in your sightless substances Ye wait on nature's mischief ! Come , thick ...