Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 3
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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 3

David Garrick, Charles Macklin and Margaret Woffington by Their Contemporaries

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Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I, Volume 3

David Garrick, Charles Macklin and Margaret Woffington by Their Contemporaries

About this book

Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781138754324
eBook ISBN
9781040250372
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Bibliography
  9. Chronology
  10. Note on Copy Texts
  11. [Anon.], Memoirs of the Celebrated Mrs. Woffington (1762)
  12. Contemporary Commentators
  13. W. R. Chetwood, A General History of the Stage (1749)
  14. Theophilus Cibber, A Serio-Comic Apology (1748)
  15. John Hill, The Actor: A Treatise on the Art of Playing (1750)
  16. [Anon.], ‘Mrs Woffington’, The Theatrical Review: For the Year 1757, and Beginning of 1758 (1758)
  17. Satires and Panegyrics
  18. Henry Jones, ‘On Seeing Mrs Woffington Appear in Several Characters’, Poems on Several Occasions (1749)
  19. [Anon.], A Guide to the Stage (1750)
  20. ‘A Lady’, The Vision. Inscribed to Mrs. Woffington (1753)
  21. Prologues and Epilogues
  22. David Garrick, ‘Epilogue Spoken by Mrs Woffington’, from Samuel Johnson, Prologue and Epilogue Spoken at the Theatre in Drury-Lane, 1747 (1747)
  23. Aaron Hill, ‘Prologue to Harry the 5th; Intended for Mrs Woffington’, The Works of the Late Aaron Hill (1753)
  24. [Anon.], ‘The Female Volunteer’, The Theatre of Wit; or A Banquet of Muses (1746)
  25. Ireland, 1751–4
  26. Robert Hitchcock, An Historical View of the Irish Stage (1790)
  27. Benjamin Victor, The History of the Theatres of London and Dublin (1761)
  28. Benjamin Victor, The History of the Theatres of London, from the Year 1760 to the Present Time (1771)
  29. [Francis Andrews], ‘Mrs Woffington’s Petition to To His G—e the L—D L—T of Ireland’, Gentleman’s Magazine (1751)
  30. Thomas Davies
  31. Thomas Davies, Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq. (1780)
  32. Thomas Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies (1784)
  33. Quin and Macklin
  34. [Anon.], The Life of Mr James Quin, Comedian (1766)
  35. James Kirkman, Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq (1799)
  36. Francis Gentleman, The Dramatic Censor; or, Critical Companion (1770)
  37. Tate Wilkinson, Memoirs of His Own Life (1790)
  38. Eulogies and Elegies
  39. John Hoole, ‘A Monody to the Memory of Mrs Margaret Woffington’, A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, By Several Hands (1775)
  40. [Anon.], Woffington’s Ghost (1761)
  41. Notes
  42. Index