Author: David GarrickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
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
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 Private Correspondence of David Garrick
Author: David GarrickThe Private Correspondence of David Garrick
Author: David GarrickStaging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography
Author: Amanda Weldy BoydPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783086688
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies’ 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre’s history, the three-way war for the right to tell Charles Macklin’s story at the turn of the century and James Boaden’s theatrical biography spree in the 1820s and 1830s, including the lives of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Inchbald. This project investigates the extent to which biographers envisioned themselves as artists, inheriting the anxiety of impermanence and correlating fear of competition that plagued their thespian subjects. It traces a suggestive, but not determinative, outline of generic development, noting the shifting generic features that emerge in context of a given work’s predecessors. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” editions of the biographies, this text is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority. This turn to materiality also authorized readerly participation, allowing readers to “co-author” biographies through the use of material insertions, asserting their own presence in the texts about beloved thespians.
The Cambridge history of English literature
Author: A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Robert William LowePublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
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Author: William StrongDavid Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Author: Leslie RitchiePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108693245
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
What happens when an actor owns shares in the stage on which he performs and the newspapers that review his performances? Celebrity that lasts over 240 years. From 1741, David Garrick dominated the London theatre world as the progenitor of a new 'natural' style of acting. From 1747 to 1776, he was a part-owner and manager of Drury Lane, controlling most aspects of the theatre's life. In a spectacular foreshadowing of today's media convergences, he also owned shares in papers including the St James's Chronicle and the Public Advertiser, which advertised and reviewed Drury Lane's theatrical productions. This book explores the nearly inconceivable level of cultural power generated by Garrick's entrepreneurial manufacture and mediation of his own celebrity. Using new technologies and extensive archival research, this book uncovers fresh material concerning Garrick's ownership and manipulation of the media, offering timely reflections for theatre history and media studies.