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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... thought to have had a hand in altering and adapting some twenty - two plays of Shake- speare before and during his management of Drury Lane . Only twelve of these , however , can be authenticated . They include Antony and Cleo- patra ...
... 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 rapt ! MACBETH ( aside ) . If chance will have me ...
... thought good to deliver thee ( my dearest partner of greatness ) that thou mightest not lose the dues of rejoicing by being ignorant of what greatness is promised thee . Lay it to thy heart , and farewell . ” Glamis thou art , and ...
... thoughts , unsex me here , And fill me from the crown to th ' toe , top - full Of direst cruelty ! Make thick my blood ; Stop up th ' access and passage to remorse , That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose nor ...
... 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 happily introduce the sequel : it has variety , and a ...