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 Seiten 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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... ) , where we assign Garrick's plays to their production seasons , will demon- strate such division graphically . In the first group are Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet , plays of his early acting experience xiv INTRODUCTION.
... season , and the ill - fated Antony and Cleopatra were designed as mainpieces and treated in serious fashion . King ... seasons and could be counted on to bolster up many a dull mainpiece . The Fairies , taken from A Mid- summer Night's ...
... seasons , sixteen performances being given in the first season . It is necessary to note the characteristics of all these adaptations and to distinguish between the serious dramas and those meant for after- pieces and entertainments ...
... , where it was presented sixty - five times to sixteen at Drury Lane . And in the Drury Lane productions Blakes played Dr. Caius ten times and Baddeley six . The Garrick Canon [ Dates indicate the season each play INTRODUCTION xvii.
... season each play or adaptation was first presented . ] GARRICK'S OWN PLAYS 1. Lethe ; or Esop in the Shades . A Dramatic Satire ( 1740 ) 2. The Lying Valet ( 1741 ) 3. Miss in Her Teens ; or , The Medley of Lovers . A Farce ( 1747 ) 4 ...