{"product_id":"9780809308620","title":"Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's Own Plays, 1740-1766","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis first complete edition makes available to scholars and students all the plays of Gar­rick 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.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThey are not all mas­terpieces, but their inclusion here, arranged in chronological order, will enable the stage his­torian to assess Garrick’s progress as a dramatist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: \u003ci\u003eLethe\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e or, Esop in the Shades. A Dra­matic Satire, \u003c\/i\u003e1740; \u003ci\u003eThe Lying Valet, \u003c\/i\u003e1741; \u003ci\u003eMiss in Her Teens\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e or, The Medley of Lovers. A Farce, \u003c\/i\u003e1747; \u003ci\u003eLilliputt. A Dramatic Entertainment, \u003c\/i\u003e1756; \u003ci\u003eThe Male-Coquette\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e or, Seventeen Hundred Fifty Seven, \u003c\/i\u003e1757; \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian. A Comedy, \u003c\/i\u003e1759;\u003ci\u003e Harlequin’s Invasion\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e or, A Christmas Gambol, \u003c\/i\u003e1759; \u003ci\u003eThe Enchanter\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e or, Love and Magic. A Musi­cal Drama, \u003c\/i\u003e1760; \u003ci\u003eThe Farmer’s Return from Lon­don. An Interlude, \u003c\/i\u003e1762; \u003ci\u003eThe Clandestine Mar­riage. A Comedy, \u003c\/i\u003e1766; and \u003ci\u003eNeck or Nothing. A Farce, \u003c\/i\u003e1766.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026490114288,"sku":"9780809308620","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809308620_p0.gif?v=1763738089","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809308620","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}