Plays by David Garrick and George Colman the Elder
Plays by David Garrick and George Colman the Elder

Author: E. R. Wood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1982-06-17

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780521235907

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As playwrights David Garrick and George Colman the Elder showed themselves to be practical men of the theatre, providing excellent acting parts and well-constructed scenes capable of provoking laughter in any age. At one time they were rival managers of the two main London theatres, Drury Lane and Covent Garden, but their friendship was greater than their rivalry and survived until Garrick's death. This volume includes five plays: three short farces by Garrick, a full-length play by Colman and the famous collaborative work The Clandestine Marriage. The playwrights' abilities complemented each other and their eventual parting illustrates the divergence of comic styles that were popular at the time - the satirical and the sentimental. In his introduction Mr Wood describes the composition and expectations of the contemporary London audiences and the theatrical careers of the two playwright-managers.

Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1
Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 1

Author: Gail Marshall

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1040251021

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Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell

Author: Philip H. Highfill

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9780809308330

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In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dom­inated by the glamour of David Gar­rick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 por­traits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.