4 Letters and a Note from David Garrick
Author: David Garrick
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Published: 1742
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Author: David Garrick
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Published: 1742
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kalman A. Burnim
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780809306251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life of this actor, manager, playwright, and eighteenth-century gentleman is here refracted through the volurninous correspondence and analyses of roles, plays, and performances in this, no doubt final, biography of David Garrick. As the direct result of modern scholarship accessible only since the 1960s, it is now possible to appraise fully the life of this remarkable person who was born in Lichfield 19February 1717, a childhood friend of Samuel Johnson, who became the greatest English theatrical luminary who ever lived, and who when he died 20 January 1779was mourned by the nation and eulogized by Dr. Johnson as one whose death "eclipsed the gaiety of nations." For twenty-nine years (1747-1776) Garrick managed Drury Lane theatre, caring passionately for its well-being. His own acting set the pace for the performances, his discipline carried it on, and his theatrical innovations attracted the audiences on which the lives, hopes, and families of some 140actors, actresses, singers, dancers, and others depended. In addition, he wrote, adapted, or altered some 49 plays and wrote nearly 100 prologues. What emerges from this big, new critical biography is a fully drawn portrait of an eighteenth-century gentleman, with a wide range of acquaintances, elegant socially, morally, and personally, and an engaging conversationalist with and respecter of women of mark and with his closest friends. He was also, as the evidence now shows, the solid link with his own age and the great dramatic artists of the past, from the Restoration playwrights to Massinger, Jonson, Shakespeare, and early English dramatists.
Author: Richard Warner
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Published: 1768
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Garrick
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780809309689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid 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.
Author: David Garrick
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 232
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 756
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Published: 1773
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-03-24
Total Pages: 868
ISBN-13: 1441184481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe second set of volumes in the eighteen-volume series Great Shakespeareans, covering the work of nineteen key figures who influenced the global understanding of Shakespeare
Author: S. Austin Allibone
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Published: 1874
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 134
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