Vanessa Cunningham: Shakespeare and Garrick

Cover: 9780521889773 | Shakespeare and Garrick | Vanessa Cunningham | Buch | Gebunden | 2016

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Beschreibung

Much has been written about the acting style of David Garrick, the eighteenth century's greatest actor-manager, but this book, unusually, claims a place for him within Shakespeare studies as a literary as well as a theatrical figure. It analyses several of Garrick's alterations of Shakespeare's plays in which he took the lead, and traces his close involvement with the major Shakespeare editors of the period, including his friend Samuel Johnson. Admirers claimed that Garrick's performances illuminated the playtexts better than the commentaries of scholarly editors. His reputation as Shakespeare's living representative and best interpreter was so high that he was involved in most Shakespeare-related projects of his day, not least the Jubilee at Stratford. While Garrick lived, the imminent divorce of 'stage' and 'page' could not take place. In this text, Cunningham shows how vital a resource Garrick's collection of early plays in English has been to generations of Shakespeare scholars.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Garrick's alterations of Shakespeare - a note on texts; 1. Garrick and Shakespeare - before the divorce of stage and page; 2. The contexts of Garrick's alterations of Shakespeare; 3. 'To give the actor more eclat' - Garrick's earliest alterations of Shakespeare; 4. 'Rebottling' Shakespeare - Garrick in mid-career (1753-68); 5. (Entr'acte): Celebrating Shakespeare on page and stage in 1769; 6. 'Parental and filial capacities' - King Lear and Hamlet; 7. Epilogue - Garrick's legacy to Shakespeare studies; Bibliography.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780521889773
ISBN-10:	0521889774
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Cunningham, Vanessa
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Vanessa Cunningham
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.07.2016
Gewicht:	0,504 kg