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Shakespeare and Garrick - Vanessa Cunningham

Shakespeare and Garrick

Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-88977-3 (ISBN)
CHF 137,00 inkl. MwSt
David Garrick, England's most celebrated actor-manager, owed much of his success to Shakespeare. This unusual book views him as a literary as well as a theatrical figure, examining the changes Garrick made to his idol's plays to please eighteenth-century London theatre audiences, and his involvement with Shakespearean editors.
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.

Vanessa Cunningham is a Fellow of Cardiff University.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.4.2008
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 520 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-521-88977-4 / 0521889774
ISBN-13 978-0-521-88977-3 / 9780521889773
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