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David Garrick Director
Author | : Kalman A. Burnim |
Publsiher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0809306255 |
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The life of this actor, manager, playwright, and eighteenth-century gentleman is here refracted through the volurninous correspondence and analyses of roles, plays, and performances in this, no doubt final, biography of David Garrick. As the direct result of modern scholarship accessible only since the 1960s, it is now possible to appraise fully the life of this remarkable person who was born in Lichfield 19February 1717, a childhood friend of Samuel Johnson, who became the greatest English theatrical luminary who ever lived, and who when he died 20 January 1779was mourned by the nation and eulogized by Dr. Johnson as one whose death "eclipsed the gaiety of nations." For twenty-nine years (1747-1776) Garrick managed Drury Lane theatre, caring passionately for its well-being. His own acting set the pace for the performances, his discipline carried it on, and his theatrical innovations attracted the audiences on which the lives, hopes, and families of some 140actors, actresses, singers, dancers, and others depended. In addition, he wrote, adapted, or altered some 49 plays and wrote nearly 100 prologues. What emerges from this big, new critical biography is a fully drawn portrait of an eighteenth-century gentleman, with a wide range of acquaintances, elegant socially, morally, and personally, and an engaging conversationalist with and respecter of women of mark and with his closest friends. He was also, as the evidence now shows, the solid link with his own age and the great dramatic artists of the past, from the Restoration playwrights to Massinger, Jonson, Shakespeare, and early English dramatists.
David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Author | : Leslie Ritchie |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781108475877 |
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Explores how David Garrick - actor, newspaper proprietor and part-owner of Drury Lane Theatre - mediated his own celebrity.
An Actor s Library
Author | : Nicholas D. Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Book collecting |
ISBN | : 1584563621 |
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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
Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick
Author | : Thomas Davies |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1780 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590287932 |
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High Life Below Stairs
Author | : James Townley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1830 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:V000388441 |
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Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick Esq
Author | : Thomas Davies |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1784 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : BNC:1001985318 |
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The Life of David Garrick
Author | : Arthur Murphy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1801 |
Genre | : Theater |
ISBN | : MINN:31951002003157D |
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A Letter to David Garrick Esq on His Conduct as Principal Manager and Actor at Drury Lane
Author | : David Williams |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1772 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:N11708231 |
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