{"product_id":"9780809309689","title":"Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's Adaptations of Shakespeare, 1744-1756","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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: \u003ci\u003eMacbeth. A Tragedy, \u003c\/i\u003e1744; \u003ci\u003eRomeo and Juliet, \u003c\/i\u003e1748; \u003ci\u003eThe Fairies. An Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, 1755;\u003ci\u003e Catherine and Petruchio. A Comedy, \u003c\/i\u003e1756; \u003ci\u003eFlorizel and Perdita. A Dramatic Pastoral, \u003c\/i\u003e1756; \u003ci\u003eThe Tem­pest. An Opera, \u003c\/i\u003e1756; and \u003ci\u003eKing Lear. A Tragedy, \u003c\/i\u003e1756.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016386724080,"sku":"9780809309689","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809309689","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}