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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... Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, to which are Added the Alterations and Adaptations of the Plays of Shakespeare and Other Dramatists from the Six David Garrick Harry William Pedicord, Fredrick Louis Bergmann. THE PLAYS OF ...
... plays of David Garrick . Includes bibliographies and indexes . CONTENTS : V. I. Garrick's own plays , 1740-1766.— v . 2. Garrick's own plays , 1769-1775 . - v . 3. Garrick's adaptations of Shakespeare , 1744-1756 . I. Pedicord , Harry ...
... Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, to which are Added the Alterations and Adaptations of the Plays of Shakespeare and ... play ) , for permission to quote from The Huntington's copy of Lethe , and for permission to reprint The ...
... Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, to which are Added the Alterations and Adaptations of the Plays of Shakespeare and Other Dramatists from the Six David Garrick Harry William Pedicord, Fredrick Louis Bergmann. Introduction ...
... play ) , Timon of Athens , Twelfth Night , and The Two Gentlemen of Verona . This means that the only Shakespeare plays not produced by Garrick are twelve : The Comedy of Errors , Corio- lanus , Henry VI ( all three parts ) , Julius ...