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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... present Shakespeare's text . Garrick , moreover , retained Tate's love affair between Cordelia and Edgar and omitted Shakespeare's Fool . Despite such submission to public taste , Garrick managed to substitute much of Shakespeare's ...
... demands little more than a good external appearance " ( F. G. ) . 39. Command . . . halt ] Garrick's interpolation from Davenant's alteration ( 1674 ) . 60 You greet with present grace and Of noble having 10 MACBETH Act 1 , Scene.
... present grace and Of noble having and of royal hope , great prediction That he seems rapt withal . To me you speak not . If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not , Speak then to me , who ...
... 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 partner's ...
... present time , and I feel now The future in the instant . 60 MACBETH . Dearest love , Duncan comes here tonight . LADY MACBETH . And when goes hence ? MACBETH . Tomorrow , as he purposes . LADY MACBETH . O , never Shall sun that morrow ...