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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... speak of Performers , we should deem ourselves ungrateful to Mr. GARRICK's unparalleled merit , if we did not here remark , that he illustrates the author's powerful ideas , with such natural , animated , forcible propriety , that the ...
... speak things strange . ROSSE . God save the king ! KING . Whence cam'st thou , worthy thane ? ROSSE . From Fife , great king , Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold . Norway himself , with numbers terrible ...
... Speak , if you can . What are you ? FIRST WITCH . All hail , Macbeth ! Hail to thee , Thane of Glamis ! SECOND WITCH ... speaking , demands little more than a good external appearance " ( F. G. ) . 39. Command . . . halt ] Garrick's ...
... 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 neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate . FIRST WITCH . Hail ! SECOND WITCH . Hail ! THIRD WITCH . Hail ...
... speak true ? MACBETH . The Thane of Cawdor lives . Why do you dress me in his borrow'd robes ? ANGUS . Who was the Thane lives yet , But under heavy judgment bears that life Which he deserves to lose . Whether he was Combined with ...