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 páginas 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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... changes occur- ring in the omission of the Porter's scene ( II , i ) , the standard cutting of Lady Macbeth from III , ii , and the retention of the Witches scenes in II , ii , and III , vi , as created by Sir William Davenant from ...
... changes Romeo and Juliet to please the sensitivity of the public . He retains Tate's ending to King Lear from a conviction that his audience will not accept any other , but with a determination to restore much of the original text and ...
... 1773 , are indicated by " F. G. " following the note ] ) . 12.1 . " It is a great breach of propriety in action , to make the witches sink , after saying ' hover through the fog , & c . ' " ( F. G. ) . 1 , IO 20 30 SCENE [ II ] changes.
... changes to a palace at Foris . Enter King , Malcolm , Donalbain , Lenox , with Attendants , meeting a bleeding Captain . KING . What bloody man is that ? he can report , As seemeth by his plight , of the revolt The newest state ...
... changes to the heath . Thunder . The three Witches rise from under the stage . FIRST WITCH . Where hast thou been , sister ? SECOND WITCH . Killing swine . THIRD WITCH . Sister , where thou ? FIRST WITCH . A sailor's wife had chestnuts ...