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Shakespeare and Garrick

Shakespeare and Garrick

Cunningham, Vanessa

Hardcover

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 0521889774
ISBN13: 9780521889773
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 10 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.29 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
Much has been written about the acting style of David Garrick, the eighteenth century's greatest actor-manager, but this book, unusually, claims a place for him within Shakespeare studies as a literary as well as a theatrical figure. It analyses several of Garrick's alterations of Shakespeare's plays in which he took the lead, and traces his close involvement with the major Shakespeare editors of the period, including his friend Samuel Johnson. Admirers claimed that Garrick's performances illuminated the playtexts better than the commentaries of scholarly editors. His reputation as Shakespeare's living representative and best interpreter was so high that he was involved in most Shakespeare-related projects of his day, not least the Jubilee at Stratford. While Garrick lived, the imminent divorce of 'stage' and 'page' could not take place. In this text, Cunningham shows how vital a resource Garrick's collection of early plays in English has been to generations of Shakespeare scholars.

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