Garrick's alterations of others

Author(s)

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

Bibliographic Information

Garrick's alterations of others

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. 5-7）

Southern Illinois University Press, c1982

• 1742-1750
• 1751-1756
• 1757-1773

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

v. 5. 1742-1750 -- v. 6. 1751-1756 -- v. 7. 1757-1773

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

1742-1750 ISBN 9780809309931

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. Contents: The Rehearsal (George Villiers and Others), 1742; The Alchymist. A Comedy (Ben Jonson), 1743; The Provok' d Wife. A Comedy (John Vanbrugh), 1744; and The Roman Father. A Tragedy (William Whitehead), 1750.

Volume

1751-1756 ISBN 9780809309948

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. Contents: Alfred. A Masque (James Thomson and David Mallet), 1751; Every Man in His Humour. A Comedy (Ben Jonson), 1751; Zara. A Tragedy (Aaron Hill), 1754; The Chances. A Comedy (John Fletcher and George Villiers), 1754; and Rule a Wife and Have a Wife. A Comedy (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher), 1756.

Volume

1757-1773 ISBN 9780809310517

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 Garrick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes.Contents: "Isabella"; "or, The Fatal Marriage" (Thomas Southerne), 1757; "The Gamesters. A ""Comedy "(James Shirley), 1757; "Mahomet the Imposter "(James Miller and John Hoadly), 1765; "The Country Girl" (William Wycherley), 1766; "King Arthur"; "or, The British Worthy." "A Masque" (John Dryden), 1770; and "Albumazar. A Comedy "(Thomas Tomkis), 1773."

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BA1347182X
• ISBN:
  • 0809309939
  • 0809309947
  • 0809310511
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Carbondale
• Pages/Volumes: 3 v.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC19 : 822/.6
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10344258