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Asking him to read the preface to Steevens' new edition of Shakespeare, published 1773.
Autograph Letter Signed from George Steevens to [David Garrick]
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Asking him to read the preface to Steevens' new edition of Shakespeare, published 1773.
Autograph Letter Signed and Initialled from George Steevens to Garrick
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Description: A letter from the scholar/editor George Steevens to Garrick about his edition of Hamlet.
Autograph Letters Signed from David Garrick, the Adelphi, to George Steevens, Hampstead
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Concerns Steevens' research for the proposed edition of Shakespeare's works by himself and Johnson. Several refer to Steevens' borrowing of Garrick's collection of old plays and their correspondence with contemporary commentators, e.g. a Mr. Swan of York, and Brome a "descendant of the famous author Alexander Brome; Shakespeare gave the first edition of Surrey's Poems to one of his ancestors living in Warwickshire; Brome sent to me and I lent it to Dr. Percy," (W.a.180). In W.a.186 he asks if he has ever thought of any play unrevived in Shakespeare that would bring credit to "us" well decorated and carefully got up? - Richard II? He had revived Anthony and Cleopatra, but he had grown tired and given it up ...
Autograph Letter to George Steevens, Esq., Dated March 8th, 1774, in Reply to His Letter of March 6th].
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Author: David GarrickAutograph Letters Signed and Initialled from George Steevens, Hampstead Heath and Elsewhere, to Various People
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Some letters undated. Correspondents: David Garrick, [William] Herbert, [Michael] Lort, Edmond Malone, Thomas Percy, Isaac Reed, [Paul? Vaillant], R.B. Sheridan and possibly another. Also, Steevens' notes on Beaumont and Fletcher; and Malone's advertisement for an edition of The plays of Shakspeare, embellished by Charlton Nesbit after Mr. Thurston, December 1804. The letters discuss points of literary interest; many concern Steevens' collaboration with Malone and Reed in the editing of Shakespeare's plays. In a letter to Garrick [1771?], (2), Steevens mentions Garrick's current altering of Hamlet. In another to Malone, May 9, 1782, (24), he refers to a small, full-length picture of Shakspeare, a pretended original. In two letters to Percy, 1797, (41 and 43), he notes prices fetched by the old quartos of Shakspeare. Several letters refer to Chatterton and Goldsmith. Correspondents and item numbers: David Garrick (1-4); [William] Herbert (5-9), [Michael Lort (10-12), Edmond Malone (13-37), Thomas Percy (38-44), Isaac Reed (15-48), [Paul? Vaillant] (49), R.B. Sheridan (53) and possibly another (50)
27 Letters from George Steevens to David Garrick
Author: George SteevensAutograph Letter Signed from Charles Pratt, Earl Camden, Camden Place, to David Garrick
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Refers disparagingly to George Steevens' edition of Shakespeare's Works, 1773.
Author: David Garrick
Author: George Steevens
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