David Garrick

David Garrick put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW .

The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope ; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but...

This novel became notorious for its hostile portrait of Garrick . It also complains of the lack of outlets for new plays, attacks Town and Country Magazine for its Tete-a-Tete feature of gossip or scandal...

The opening performance (with Langhorne 's prologue, and David Garrick 's epilogue) was attended by HM , her four sisters, and Garrick. He proposed taking the play to Drury Lane, but More declined. A...

She had worked on it that spring, sending it one act at a time to David and Eva Maria Garrick , who were trenchantly and helpfully critical. David wrote a prologue and epilogue. His...

HM probably gave up the theatre (both writing for it and attending plays) less because of the loss of David Garrick or the conflict with Hannah Cowley than because of her religious belief, which presented...

More said she was drawn to Montagu less by the lustre of your understanding, than by the amiable qualities of your heart. Her work went through ten editions in ten years, and laid the...

Dragon was David Garrick 's dog.

In Garrick 's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman . It ran for only three nights, though after the first performance FS hastily rewrote passages in act four. The meagre single...

After doingDavid Garrick in 1958, CO published Ayot Rectory, a biography of the unknown Mary (Sneade) Brown (1780-1858).

She was said to have begun it on impulse when her husband laughed at her claim that she could produce something better than another play which they had just seen and disliked. She finished it...

Many of EG 's letters to Garrick survive on film among Papers of David Garrick at the Victoria and Albert Museum . A few of her holograph letters to other people are at Harvard .

Lennox made the adaptation at Garrick 's suggestion, following an unsuccessful one by Robert Dodsley decades earlier. An edition followed on 27 November. Lady Bute (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 's daughter) had politely...

AS wrote an elegy for David Garrick after his death on 20 January 1779.

They accompanied in performance all that remains of David Garrick 's ode written for his Shakespeare Jubilee of September 1769. After the Stratford performance the masque went on tour.