{"product_id":"9780809308637","title":"Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's Own Plays, 1767-1775","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\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\u003eContents: \u003ci\u003eCymon\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eA Dramatic Romance\u003c\/i\u003e, 1767; \u003ci\u003eLinco’s Travels. An Interlude\u003c\/i\u003e, 1767; \u003ci\u003eA Peep Behind the Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eor, The New Rehearsal\u003c\/i\u003e, 1767; \u003ci\u003eThe Jubilee\u003c\/i\u003e, 1769; \u003ci\u003eThe Institution of the Garter\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eor,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eArthur’s Roundtable Restored, \u003c\/i\u003e1771; \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Widow, \u003c\/i\u003e1772; \u003ci\u003eA Christmas Tale. A New Dramatic Entertainment, \u003c\/i\u003e1773; \u003ci\u003eThe Meeting of the Com­pany\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e or, Bayes’s Art of Acting, \u003c\/i\u003e1774; \u003ci\u003eBon Ton\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e or, High Life above Stairs, \u003c\/i\u003e1775; \u003ci\u003eMay-Day\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e or, The Little Gipsy, \u003c\/i\u003e1775; and \u003ci\u003eThe Theatrical Candidates, \u003c\/i\u003e1775.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026404524272,"sku":"9780809308637","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780809308637_p0.gif?v=1763741342","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809308637","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}