{"product_id":"9780809309931","title":"Plays of David Garrick: Garrick's Alterations of Others, 1742-1750","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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: \u003ci\u003eThe Rehearsal \u003c\/i\u003e(George Villiers and Others), 1742; \u003ci\u003eThe Alchymist. A Comedy \u003c\/i\u003e(Ben Jonson), 1743; \u003ci\u003eThe Provok’d Wife. A Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e (John Vanbrugh), 1744; and \u003ci\u003eThe Roman Father\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eA Tragedy \u003c\/i\u003e(William Whitehead), 1750.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021420118256,"sku":"9780809309931","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780809309931","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}