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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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DAVID GARRICK AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH COMEDY: A Study of Adaptation on the Eighteenth-Century Stage; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter One -- Originality and Imitation; Chapter Two -- Variation on a Theme; Chapter Three -- Imitation and Translation; Chapter Four -- A Gustavian Civil Servant, An Excursus; Chapter Five -- New Variations on an Old Theme; Chapter Six -- Change and Continuity; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
David Garrick was an assiduous reader and collector of older English, and to some extent French plays and we can see him looking backwards, searching out and buying extant play collections offered for sale. Some of these plays he remodeled and imitated for his company. Looking forward, beyond him, we can see that his work was in turn admired, read, and subsequently translated and imitated. Garrick the reader became Garrick the read. He forms, therefore, a bridge in the movement and development of comedy in the eighteenth century. Alan Swanson brings his considerable knowledge of theater and lin. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Garrick, David, 1717-1779 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Garrick, David, 1717-1779. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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English drama (Comedy) -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
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English drama (Comedy) |
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Adaptations. |
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Drama -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Drama -- Adaptations. |
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Drama. |
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Stage adaptations -- History and criticism.
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Stage adaptations. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Swanson, Alan. David Garrick and the Development of English Comedy : A Study of Adaptation on the Eighteenth-Century Stage. Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, ©2012 9780773440579 |
| ISBN |
9780773418066 |
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0773418067 |
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9780773440579 |
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0773440577 |
| Standard No. |
(YBP)10374951 |
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