David Garrick

The Duchess of Devonshire knew virtually everyone in London society. Set apart was the Devonshire House Circle: a clique of wealthy and fashionable Whigs with rakish or bohemian leanings, who even spoke in their...

Johnson had a talent for friendship which he kept well exercised: the names mentioned here represent only a selection of his friendships. His early London friends, whom he met during a comparatively poorly documented period...

FB made friends in the older generation as well as her own. The whole Burney family loved and were loved by David Garrick . Sir Joshua Reynolds , who lived barely fifty yards away from...

Garrick took some trouble to revise her draft: cutting over-long speeches, for example. She was grateful and appreciative but, surprisingly in view of the skilful way she shifts the play's emphasis from hero to heroine...

Aspects of this story were re-used by Jane Barker (for Philinda's Story out of the Book in The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen, 1725) and by Thomas Southerne and David Garrick for works for...

It was published the same month by Fielding and Walker , who were also publishers of the Westminster Magazine (to which EG was a contributor). An Advertisement attributes the idea of adapting Goldoni to...

CL had probably begun this play immediately after the appearance of her novel Henrietta, 1759, which it reworks. Indeed, the play bore the same title as the novel when it was seen in manuscript...

CN refers to several canonical English names (Pope , Reynolds , Garrick , Shakespeare , and Edmund Kean in her first poem), and relates closely to continental women. She praises Germaine de Staël for...

Eight months after Brooke's broadside against Garrick , he put on a version of Lear which was slightly closer to Shakespeare. Though she had praised his acting, Garrick seems to have been seriously offended...

The heroine of this novel is unhappy in her marriage (two small children) to an ebullient and overbearing young actor. She is stuck with his theatre company in its seven-month season in Hereford (the birthplace...

Garrick thought her letter fine & conceited. The first editor of his correspondence, James Boaden , called her in a note this silly and impudent woman, typically folding together the...

A prologue by William Whitehead mentioned DC 's right to inherit her father's theatrical talent, in spite of her sex: No Salick law here bars the female's claim. It concluded with the statement that critics...

The Monthly Review called the first two volumes very judicious and truly critical.CL later wrote that the work had been received with very general favour and was translated into German...

Garrick thought it read beautifully but was lacking in action.

David Garrick showed his confidence in the play by agreeing to take a role secondary to that of Thomas Sheridan as male lead. The young dramatist John O'Keeffe long remembered the opening as delightful and...