Items related to Plays V. 1: Garrick's Own Plays, 1740-1766: 001

Plays V. 1: Garrick's Own Plays, 1740-1766: 001 - Hardcover

Garrick, David; Pedicord, Harry William

 
9780809308620: Plays V. 1: Garrick's Own Plays, 1740-1766: 001
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0809308622 ISBN 13: 9780809308620
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980

Synopsis

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. The two volumes of Garrick’s own plays published together here include the twenty-two plays of the Garrick canon attributable to him. Garrick’s claim to serious consideration as a playwright rests upon these plays, written between 1740 and 1775.They are not all mas­terpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable the stage his­torian to assess Garrick’s progress as a dramatist.

Contents: Lethe; or, Esop in the Shades. A Dra­matic Satire, 1740; The Lying Valet, 1741; Miss in Her Teens; or, The Medley of Lovers. A Farce, 1747; Lilliputt. A Dramatic Entertainment, 1756; The Male-Coquette; or, Seventeen Hundred Fifty Seven, 1757; The Guardian. A Comedy, 1759; Harlequin’s Invasion; or, A Christmas Gambol, 1759; The Enchanter; or, Love and Magic. A Musi­cal Drama, 1760; The Farmer’s Return from Lon­don. An Interlude, 1762; The Clandestine Mar­riage. A Comedy, 1766; and Neck or Nothing. A Farce, 1766.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Harry William Pedicord is Professor Emeritus of English at Thiel College, Green­ville, Pennsylvania.

Fredrick Louis Bergmann is Pro­fessor of English at DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date
1980
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0809308622
ISBN 13 
9780809308620
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
480
Editor
Pedicord Harry William, Bergmann Fredrick Louis