David Garrick

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Standard Name: Garrick, David

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Reception Elizabeth Griffith
Rizzo regards this play as an attempt (not unsuccessful) to placate male critics, a trial run of the unhappy insights that EG used in most of her later work.
Rizzo, Betty. “’Depressa Resurgam’: Elizabeth Griffith’s Playwriting Career”. Curtain Calls, edited by Mary Anne Schofield and Cecilia Macheski, Ohio University Press, pp. 120-42.
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Griffith was rewarded with critical...
Reception Frances Brooke
David Garrick emphatically warned Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni against using FB as a translator again in the future.
Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
461
Textual Features Susan Smythies
In this third-person narrative (again well supplied with subsidiary, episodic stories) Lucy is a well-bred ideal orphan, who is discovered by Mrs Goodall, a benevolent widow of fifty-nine, living with the vulgar and unpleasant Searls...
Textual Features Georgina Munro
A debauched earl is the narrator of this novel, which, typically for the genre, is peopled by characters from the gentry and the upper classes.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
744 (1842):110
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The story is set during the reign of...
Textual Features Frances Brooke
The periodical's theatre reports, provided by a little court of female criticism
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix.
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that includes Mary Singleton and a further six virgins,
Brooke, Frances. “Introduction”. The Excursion, edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Hope D. Cotton, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix.
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deplore the displacement of Shakespeare 's original King Lear by Nahum Tate
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS wrote an elegy for David Garrick after his death on 20 January 1779.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Carol Ann Duffy
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.
Clements, Andrew. “Carol Ann Duffy’s life of Shakespeare tops a wigs’ n ’breeches blast from the past”. The Guardian, p. Review 29.
Textual Production Sarah Fielding
SF sent David Garrick the draft of an unfinished play; it remains unpublished, unperformed, and lost.
Sabor, Peter, and Sarah Fielding. “Introduction”. The Adventures of David Simple and Volume the Last, University Press of Kentucky, p. vii - xli.
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Textual Production Hannah More
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.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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A...
Textual Production Hannah More
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.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press.
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His...
Textual Production Hannah More
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...
Textual Production Hannah More
More said she was drawn to Montagu less by the lustre of your understanding, than by the amiable qualities of your heart.
More, Hannah. Essays on Various Subjects. J. Wilkie, T. Cadell.
prelims
Her work went through ten editions in ten years, and laid the...
Textual Production Hannah More
Dragon was David Garrick 's dog.
Textual Production Frances Sheridan
In Garrick 's absence in France, it was produced by George Colman .
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, pp. 13-35.
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It ran for only three nights, though after the first performance FS hastily rewrote passages in act four. The meagre single...
Textual Production Carola Oman
After doingDavid Garrick in 1958, CO published Ayot Rectory, a biography of the unknown Mary (Sneade) Brown (1780-1858).
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1967
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

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