David Garrick

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Standard Name: Garrick, David

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
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, 25 Apr. 2016, 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SF sent David Garrick the draft of an unfinished play; it remains unpublished, unperformed, and lost.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, 1998, 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, 1952.
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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, 1952.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ann Hatton
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Brooke
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...
Wealth and Poverty Anna Williams
David Garrick put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW .
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
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