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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... tell- But I am faint ; my wounds cry out for help- KING . So well thy words become thee as thy wounds ; They smack of honor both . Go , get him surgeons . Exit Captain , & c . Enter Rosse and Angus . But who comes here ? 50 MALCOLM ...
... tell me more . By Sinel's death I know I'm Thane of Glamis , But how of Cawdor ? The Thane of Cawdor lives , A prosperous gentleman ; and to be king Stands not within the prospect of belief , No more than to be Cawdor . Say from whence ...
... tell us truths , Win us with honest trifles , to betray us In deepest consequence.- Cousins , a word , I pray you . ( To Rosse and Angus . ) MACBETH ( aside ) . Two truths are told , As happy prologues to the swelling act Of the ...
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