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 CenturiesDavid 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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... , to give Macbeth a better opportunity of ruminating ; and this speech of his is a masterly prologue to his future acts " ( F. G. ) . 148. upfix ] unfix . 170 The leaf to read them - Let us toward Act 1 , Scene I MACBETH 13.
... , 36. Then would ] Than would . Exit Messenger . 53. " Blanket of the dark ! an expression greatly below our author ; Curtain is evidently better " ( F. G. ) 70 ΙΟ Your hand , your tongue ; look like Act 1 , Scene v MACBETH 17.
... better to conclude at ' That tears shall drown the wind ; ' Or rather , ' The deep damnation of his taking off ' " ( F. G. ) . 33. sorts ] sort . 36. " Lady Macbeth is here rather unnecessarily indelicate ; the effects of drunkenness ...
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