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: "Antony"" and Cleopatra. An Historical Play," 1759; "Cymbeline. A Tragedy," 1761; "A Midsummer Night s Dream," 1763; "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. A Tragedy, "1772; and "The Tempest. A Comedy, "1773."""
- ISBN10 0809309696
- ISBN13 9780809309696
- Publish Date 1 July 1981
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 496
- Language English