Garrick's own plays

Author(s)

• Garrick, David
• Pedicord, Harry William
• Bergmann, Fredrick Louis

Bibliographic Information

Garrick's own plays

edited with commentary and notes by Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann

（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 centuries / edited with commentary and notes by Harry William Pedicord and Fredrick Louis Bergmann, v. 1-2）

Southern Illinois University Press, c1980

• 1740-1766
• 1767-1775

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

v. 1. 1740-1766 -- v. 2. 1767-1775

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1740-1766 ISBN 9780809308620

Description

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 Gar rick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. The two volumes of Garrick's own plays published together here include the twenty-two plays of the Garrick canon attributable to him. Garrick's claim to serious consideration as a playwright rests upon these plays, written between 1740 and 1775. They are not all mas terpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable the stage his torian to assess Garrick's progress as a dramatist. Contents: Lethe; or, Esop in the Shades. A Dra matic Satire, 1740; The Lying Valet, 1741; Miss in Her Teens; or, The Medley of Lovers. A Farce, 1747; Lilliputt. A Dramatic Entertainment, 1756; The Male-Coquette; or, Seventeen Hundred Fifty Seven, 1757; The Guardian. A Comedy, 1759; Harlequin's Invasion; or, A Christmas Gambol, 1759; The Enchanter; or, Love and Magic. A Musi cal Drama, 1760; The Farmer's Return from Lon don. An Interlude, 1762; The Clandestine Mar riage. A Comedy, 1766; and Neck or Nothing. A Farce, 1766.

Volume

1767-1775 ISBN 9780809308637

Description

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 Gar rick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. The two volumes of Garrick's own plays published together here include the twenty-two plays of the Garrick canon attributable to him. Garrick's claim to serious consideration as a playwright rests upon these plays, written between 1740 and 1775. They are not all mas terpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable the stage his torian to assess Garrick's progress as a dramatist. Contents: Cymon. A Dramatic Romance, 1767; Linco's Travels. An Interlude, 1767; A Peep Behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal, 1767; The Jubilee, 1769; The Institution of the Garter; or, Arthur's Roundtable Restored, 1771; The Irish Widow, 1772; A Christmas Tale. A New Dramatic Entertainment, 1773; The Meeting of the Com pany; or, Bayes's Art of Acting, 1774; Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs, 1775; May-Day; or, The Little Gipsy, 1775; and The Theatrical Candidates, 1775.

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Details

• NCID: BA13457487
• ISBN:
  • 0809308622
  • 0809308630
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Carbondale
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC19 : 822/.6
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10344258