The Plays of David Garrick, Volume 1: Garrick's Own Plays, 1740 - 1766 Tapa dura - 1980

Southern Illinois University Press. Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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Carbondale,, 1980. First Edition Thus. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Very slight shelfwear, otherwise clean, very good.. Large 8vo. pp xxxviii, 437. Original publisher's beige cloth, lettered gilt on spine. Volume 1. ISBN: 0809308622

Hardback. New. 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 Gar-rick in well edited texts, with commentary and notes. The two volumes of Garrick' s own plays published together here include the twenty-two plays of the Garrick canon attributable to him. Garrick' s claim to serious consideration as a playwright rests upon these plays, written between 1740 and 1775. They are not all mas-terpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable… Leer más

Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1980. Hardcover. New. 480 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.50 inches.

Southern Illinois University Press. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!