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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... Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent - house lid . He shall live a man forbid . Weary sev'n nights , nine times nine , Shall he dwindle , peak and pine . Though his bark cannot be lost , Yet it shall be tempest - tost ...
... sleep Their drenched natures lie as in a death , What cannot you and I perform upon Th ' unguarded Duncan ? what not put upon His spongy officers , who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell ? MACBETH . Bring forth men - children only ...
... sleep . Merciful powers ! Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose . Enter Macbeth , and a Servant with a light . 90. " This ACT is replete with circumstances which materially engage atten- tion , and ...
... sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings , and withered murder , ( Alarmed by his sentinel the wolf , Whose howl's his watch ) thus with his stealthy pace , With Tarquin's ravishing strides , towards his design Moves ...
... Sleep no more ! Macbeth doth murder sleep " -the innocent sleep , 77. " The Scene of the murder is most admirably calculated for action , and should be played in a tremulous , under tone of voice , with a strong exertion of horror ...