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Book An Actor s Library

Download or read book An Actor s Library written by Nicholas D. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Garrick s Pupil

Download or read book Garrick s Pupil written by Augustin Filon and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Garrick s Pupil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Augustin Filon
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-07-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book Garrick s Pupil written by Augustin Filon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Garrick's Pupil' is a romance novel. Seventeen year old actress Esther Woodville arrives in London for her theatre performances, where she becomes acquainted with Lady Vereker. Both ladies are known to the hedonistic young Lord Mowbray, who has been making advances to Esther. Lady Vereker on the other hand is his former lover and wants to win him back. Meanwhile Esther is having her portrait done by the famous painter Sir Joshua Reynolds. His young assistant Francis Monday, an orphan taken in by Sir Joshua, oddly resembles Lord Mowbray, and can't help but steal glances at Esther...

Book Garrick s Complete Jester

Download or read book Garrick s Complete Jester written by and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book David Garrick

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  • Author : Alan Kendall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book David Garrick written by Alan Kendall and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of David Garrick

Download or read book The Life of David Garrick written by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Plays of David Garrick  Volume 5

Download or read book The Plays of David Garrick Volume 5 written by Harry William Pedicord and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1982-09 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Contents: The Rehearsal (George Villiers and Others), 1742; The Alchymist. A Comedy (Ben Jonson), 1743; The Provok'd Wife. A Comedy (John Vanbrugh), 1744; and The Roman Father. A Tragedy (William Whitehead), 1750.

Book The Plays of David Garrick  Garrick s own plays  1740 1766

Download or read book The Plays of David Garrick Garrick s own plays 1740 1766 written by David Garrick and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book David Garrick

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  • Author : Thomas William Robertson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book David Garrick written by Thomas William Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Private Correspondence of David Garrick     Illustrated with Notes  and a New Biographical Memoir of Garrick  by James Boaden   Second Edition   With a Portrait

Download or read book The Private Correspondence of David Garrick Illustrated with Notes and a New Biographical Memoir of Garrick by James Boaden Second Edition With a Portrait written by David Garrick and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book David Garrick  Director

Download or read book David Garrick Director written by Kalman A. Burnim and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Private Correspondence of David Garrick

Download or read book The Private Correspondence of David Garrick written by David Garrick and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of David Garrick

Download or read book The Life of David Garrick written by Percy Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Garrick Year

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  • Author : Margaret Drabble
  • Publisher : HMH
  • Release : 2013-10-01
  • ISBN : 054428691X
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book The Garrick Year written by Margaret Drabble and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Golden PEN Award–winning author: A “well-written, entertaining” dark comedy of a marriage on the rocks in 1960s London (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times). Emma and David Evans seem to have a perfect life. He’s a handsome and successful Welsh actor; she’s a sometimes model, soon-to-be television news anchor, and full-time mother. But all is not well under the surface. She’s impatient and choked by domesticity; he’s narcissistic and unfaithful. Between the two of them is a privately combative marriage that has fed their want of drama. Then David relocates the family from their London home to provincial Hereford, where he’s to star in two plays during the city’s festival season. It’s here, far removed from the highbrow stimulation of the city, that Emma’s resentment of David—his long hours, his expectations, his ego—finally boils over. Bored and lonely, she falls into the arms of the theater’s director, an indiscretion that triggers a series of surprises neither Emma nor David could have foreseen. Narrated by a complicated, fascinating, and fiercely intelligent woman at the end of her rope, The Garrick Year is “a witty, beautiful novel . . . written with extraordinary art” (The New York Times). “[A] romantic novel about actors and the theatre and marriage and sex and babies . . . deliciously bitter . . . so alive.” —The New Yorker “Unsparing . . . a very knowing, diverting entertainment.” —Kirkus Reviews

Book The manager  cont d    Actor and traveller   The Man of Society

Download or read book The manager cont d Actor and traveller The Man of Society written by Percy Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book    The    Private Correspondence of David Garrick with the Most Celebrated Persons of His Time     Illustrated with Notes  and a New Biographical Memoir of Garrick

Download or read book The Private Correspondence of David Garrick with the Most Celebrated Persons of His Time Illustrated with Notes and a New Biographical Memoir of Garrick written by David Garrick and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Private Correspondence of David Garrick with the Most Celebrated Persons of his Time

Download or read book The Private Correspondence of David Garrick with the Most Celebrated Persons of his Time written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Garrick (1717-79) is synonymous with the golden age of English theatre. Widely acclaimed as an actor, he went on to become a shrewd theatre manager at Drury Lane. His years in charge of the Theatre Royal ensured its dramatic ascendancy and burnished his own considerable celebrity. These letters, first published in 1831, reveal Garrick's gregarious nature and shed light on his many friendships with leading ladies, fellow actors, contemporary playwrights, and members of high society. His love of Shakespeare's work is also evident, highlighting Garrick's pivotal role in ensuring the plays became established in the national consciousness. This two-volume collection was edited by James Boaden (1762-1839), who published several theatrical biographies (also reissued in this series). Volume 2 contains letters from the final years of Garrick's life, notably his correspondence in French with influential figures in Parisian theatre.