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Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq: Interspersed With Characters and Anecdotes of His Theatrical Contemporaries. the Whole Forming a History of the Stage, Which Includes a Period of Thirty-Six Years: Volume 2 by Davies Davies 9780371503263
Booksplease Price: £21.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780371503263Author Davies DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 531Imprint -
![The Fairies. an Opera, Taken from a Midsummer Night's Dream ... as It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. the Songs from Shakespear, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Lansdown, Hammond, Etc. [by David Garrick.] by William Shakespeare 9781241029029](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/3839061/3838357/9781241029029__11631.1717686331.jpg?c=1 "The Fairies. an Opera, Taken from a Midsummer Night's Dream ... as It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. the Songs from Shakespear, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Lansdown, Hammond, Etc. [by David Garrick.] by William Shakespeare 9781241029029")
The Fairies. an Opera, Taken from a Midsummer Night's Dream ... as It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane. the Songs from Shakespear, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Lansdown, Hammond, Etc. [by David Garrick.] by William Shakespeare 9781241029029
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241029029Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Impri -
Acting Realism: Theory and Practice from Garrick to Meisner and Beyond Stephen Bayly 9781350320222
Booksplease Price: £76.11If you are struggling to decipher your Boal from your Brecht, your Meisner from your Marowitz, or your Adler from your Artaud, this is the book for you.Who are the great teachers and theorists of... -
Acting Realism: Theory and Practice from Garrick to Meisner and Beyond Stephen Bayly 9781350320215
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.53If you are struggling to decipher your Boal from your Brecht, your Meisner from your Marowitz, or your Adler from your Artaud, this is the book for you.Who are the great teachers and theorists of... -
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole by Joel Schechter 9780859893350
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.95Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were... -
Gainsborough and the Theatre by Hugh Belsey
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £13.81Based on new research, this profusely illustrated book draws together for the first time a group of works from public and private collections to examine the relationship that Thomas Gainsborough had... -
Eighteenth-Century Brechtians: Theatrical Satire in the Age of Walpole by Joel Schechter 9780859899970
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £62.27Discussing the actor mutiny of 1733, theatre censorship, controversial plays and Fielding's forgery of an actor's biography, the book contends that some subversive Augustan and Georgian artists were... -
Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss by Emily Hodgson Anderson 9780472130931
Booksplease Price: £47.25How do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century... -
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.99The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernNamed one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book... -
Garrick by Margaret Barton 9780313202704
Booksplease Price: £76.81David Garrick played over 90 roles on the British stage as well as writing plays, songs, and innumerable letters. As a theatrical manager he watched over the Drury Lane theater for 29 seasons.Book... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded... -
Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat by Oliver Soden 9780750995672
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.53Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded... -
Jubilee by Peter Barnes 9780413761309
Booksplease Price: £14.84An RSC commission to commemorate the first celebration of Shakespeare's life and works A mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry: In 1769, when David Garrick staged the first... -
Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean: Great Shakespeareans: Volume II by Peter Holland
Booksplease Price: £37.81The four actors whose careers the essays in this volume explore are not only the greatest English actors of their own times but also performers whose brilliance is still invoked by all interested in... -
Theatre and Celebrity in Britain 1660-2000 by Mary Luckhurst 9781403946829
Booksplease Price: £46.28Theatre has always been a site for selling outrage and sensation, a place where public reputations are made and destroyed in spectacular ways. This is the first book to investigate the construction... -
Shakespeare and Garrick by Vanessa Cunningham 9780521286428
Booksplease Price: £45.31Much has been written about the acting style of David Garrick, the eighteenth century's greatest actor-manager, but this book, unusually, claims a place for him within Shakespeare studies as a... -
On Actors And Acting by Prof. Peter Thomson
Booksplease Price: £104.92This is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. The first section centres on Elizabethan theatre... -
Johan Zoffany by 9781907372049
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48This beautifully designed and illustrated publication is the first comprehensive biography of the portrait painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810), one of the leading figures of eighteenth-century British... -
Shakespeare and Garrick by Vanessa Cunningham 9780521889773
Booksplease Price: £61.05Much has been written about the acting style of David Garrick, the eighteenth century's greatest actor-manager, but this book, unusually, claims a place for him within Shakespeare studies as a... -
Actors, Audiences, and Emotions in the Eighteenth Century: Communities of Sentiment by Glen McGillivray 9783031228988
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £102.20This book offers an innovative account of how audiences and actors emotionally interacted in the English theatre during the middle decades of the eighteenth century, a period bookended by two of its... -
Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick: Plays, Painting and Performance by Robin Simon 9781913645441
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £48.59In London in 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) remarked, 'What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick! There is something similar in the genius of all three.'... -
Representing Shakespearean Tragedy: Garrick, the Kembles, and Kean by Reiko Oya 9780521879859
Booksplease Price: £90.57Reiko Oya explores theatrical expressions of Shakespearean tragedy in Georgian London and the relations between the representative players of the time - David Garrick, John Philip Kemble and his... -
Richard III by William Shakespeare 9781840225907
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £3.39Richard III is one of the finest of Shakespeare's historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role... -
Garrick's Folly: The Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 at Stratford and Drury Lane by Johanne M. Stochholm 9781138974913
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The great Shakespeare Jubilee festival was held at Stratford, under the direction of David Garrick. The occasion was the dedication of the new town hall and the presentation by Garrick of a statue of... -
The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Paul Goring 9780521103206
Booksplease Price: £45.31The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. This wide-ranging study... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare 9780521445603
Booksplease Price: £92.54This is a detailed account of the theatrical fortunes of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the British stage, from the 1590s to the 1990s. The substantial, illustrated introduction traces the rise of the... -
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons, and Intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes by John Nichols 9781108077347
Booksplease Price: £52.00The subtitle of this eight-volume set is Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons, and Intended as a Sequel to the 'Literary Anecdotes', which had been published in... -
Elizabeth Montagu, the Queen of the Bluestockings: Her Correspondence from 1720 to 1761 by Elizabeth Montagu 9781108029537
Booksplease Price: £34.48Bluestocking, author and hostess, Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800) exercised an influence far beyond literary scholarship. Compiled by a relative, Emily Climenson, and published in 1906, this collection... -
Memoirs of Doctor Burney 3 Volume Paperback Set: Arranged from His Own Manuscripts, from Family Papers, and from Personal Recollections by Fanny Burney 9781108013710
Booksplease Price: £37.44Charles Burney (1726-1814), the music historian, is best remembered for his General History of Music and the accounts of his musical tours in Europe. He was a friend of Samuel Johnson and David... -
Memoirs of Doctor Burney 3 Volume Paperback Set: Arranged from His Own Manuscripts, from Family Papers, and from Personal Recollections by Fanny Burney 9781108013734
Booksplease Price: £40.39Charles Burney (1726-1814), the music historian, is best remembered for his General History of Music and the accounts of his musical tours in Europe. He was a friend of Samuel Johnson and David... -
Celebrity, Performance, Reception: British Georgian Theatre as Social Assemblage by David Worrall 9781108458078
Booksplease Price: £35.47By 1800 London had as many theatre seats for sale as the city's population. This was the start of the capital's rise as a centre for performing arts. Bringing to life a period of extraordinary... -
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century by Michael Caines 9780199642380
Booksplease Price: £108.37OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
Criticism, Performance, and the Passions in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Transition by James Harriman-Smith 9781108812832
Booksplease Price: £25.63Great art is about emotion. In the eighteenth century, and especially for the English stage, critics developed a sensitivity to both the passions of a performance and what they called the transitions... -
Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century by Michael Caines 9780199642373
Booksplease Price: £30.48OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
Autobiography of the Rev. Dr Alexander Carlyle, Minister of Inveresk: Containing Memorials of the Men and Events of his Time by Alexander Carlyle 9781108084222
Booksplease Price: £43.64This autobiography of the prominent Church of Scotland minister Alexander Carlyle (1722-1805) was eventually published in 1860, in an edition by the historian John Hill Burton (1809-81). Carlyle had... -
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs Frances Sheridan: Mother of the Late Right Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Alicia Lefanu 9781108064958
Booksplease Price: £41.67Frances Sheridan (1724-66) won acclaim in her day as both a playwright and novelist. Her most famous work, the sentimental novel Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761), found favour with Samuel... -
The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley: 1733-1764 by Robert Dodsley 9780521522083
Booksplease Price: £55.45The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley 1733-1764 brings to light much previously unpublished detail for the study of eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history. It is a fully annotated... -
Memoirs of the Life of John Philip Kemble, Esq.: Volume 2: Including a History of the Stage, from the Time of Garrick to the Present Period by James Boaden 9781108064934
Booksplease Price: £47.58Born into the theatre, though originally intended for Catholic holy orders, John Philip Kemble (1757-1823) made as great a name for himself on the English stage as his gifted older sister, Sarah... -
Mr Foote's Other Leg: Comedy, tragedy and murder in Georgian London by Ian Kelly 9780330517843
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £8.22In 1776 Foote's was the most talked-of name in the English-speaking world. By 1777 it was almost unmentionable. Samuel Foote, friend of David Garrick and Dr Johnson, is the greatest lost figure of... -
Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe: Written by Himself by John O'Keeffe 9781108034883
Booksplease Price: £36.44John O'Keeffe (1747-1833) was an Irish playwright who began his career as an actor in 1764. His first significant success as a writer was the play The Son-in-Law in 1779, and he was later called 'our...