The Plays of David Garrick, Volume 2: Garrick's Own Plays, 1767 - 1775 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809308630 ISBN 13: 9780809308637

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: Cymon. A Dramatic Romance, 1767; Linco’ s Travels. An Interlude, 1767; A Peep Behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal, 1767; The Jubilee, 1769; The Institution of the Garter; or, Arthur’ s Roundtable Restored, 1771; The Irish Widow, 1772; A Christmas Tale. A New Dramatic Entertainment, 1773; The Meeting of the Com­pany; or, Bayes’ s Art of Acting, 1774; Bon Ton; or, High Life above Stairs, 1775; May-Day; or, The Little Gipsy, 1775; and The Theatrical Candidates, 1775.

About 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.

Review:

“ The plays are carefully annotated and hand­somely presented. This is the first attempt at a complete edition of Garrick’ s plays since 1798 and the editors have served their subject well.” — Richard B. Schwartz, Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0809308630
• ISBN 13: 9780809308637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Pedicord Harry William, Bergman Fredrick Louis