Author: David GarrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Letters of David Garrick
Author: David GarrickAn Actor's Library
Author: Nicholas D. SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9781584563624
Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Book collecting, bibliomania and the eighteenth-century -- Building a library -- Garrick, book culture and The Club -- Collecting Shakespeare and other English dramatists -- Book-buying in France and Italy -- Dispersal -- Appendix A. Locations of Garrick's books -- Appendix B. Books to which Garrick subscribed -- Appendix C. Books addressed/dedicated to Garrick -- Appendix D. Lots purchased by Thomas Thorpe at the 1823 sale -- Appendix E. Garrick books formerly belonging to George Frederick Beltz -- Appendix F. Carrington Garrick's books
The Private Correspondence of David Garrick, with the Most Celebrated Persons of His Time
Author: David GarrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Author: Leslie RitchiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108475876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.
High life below stairs
Author: James TownleyDavid Garrick and the Birth of Modern Theatre
Author: Jean BenedettiPublisher: Methuen Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"Actor, director, impresario, author, David Garrick (1717-1779) is the most legendary man of the theatre of modern times. He reformed English theatre practice, established a 'natural' style of acting, and made the profession socially acceptable. As his great friend Dr. Johnson remarked, no actor before Garrick had made so much money nor achieved such an eminent position in society. Not for nothing is the most exclusive club in London named after him: Garrick was the first international 'megastar'." "Garrick's circle of friends was enormous and covered the social spectrum, from lawyers and wine merchants to the most famous men of letters and statesmen of his time: Pope, Boswell, Edmund Burke, Lord Burlington, Lord Chesterfield, the Prime Minister Pitt the Elder, the Lord Chancellor: the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Spencer. In France he counted Diderot, d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and the philosophes among his acquaintance. Though never honoured, he was at the very centre of his world." "Drawing on the large amount of source material available - from the accounts of Johnson's friendship with Garrick by James Boswell, through descriptions of his acting by English, French and German critics, to his own diaries and letters - Jean Benedetti has written a lively and fascinating account of Garrick's style and reforms, clearly establishing his pivotal role in the development of acting and directing."--Book Jacket.
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Author: Ignatius SanchoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors, Black
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
“The” Private Correspondence of David Garrick with the Most Celebrated Persons of His Time ... Illustrated with Notes, and a New Biographical Memoir of Garrick
Author: David GarrickThe Plays of David Garrick
Author: David GarrickPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809309689
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book 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: 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.
Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick
Author: David GarrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description