Garrick, David. Letters. Editors Little, David M. and George M. Kahrl, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963, 3 vols.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Frances Sheridan | Garrick
's reply did not take up Sheridan's points about the play's content. Instead he feigned comic alarm at a challenge from a lady, and defended his own managerial practice with lavish use of the... |
| Literary responses | Frances Brooke | Garrick
called FB
's Virginia (before it reached print) a play, which I did not like, & would not act. A footnote in his correspondence says it was published in Dublin in 1754, but... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Montagu | The patriotism of EM
's riposte ensured its enthusiastic reception. Readers (among them a brother of Elizabeth Carter
, who refrained from enlightening him) assumed that the anonymity of this authoritative critical voice concealed a... |
| Literary Setting | Ann Thicknesse | An introduction explains that this book, although called a novel, will not deal in pathetic tales of love, marvellous prodigies, or even . . . elegant flights of fancy, but only plain simple facts... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Hannah More | She had written four of its five acts when David Garrick
died, leaving her indifferent about the play and reluctant about performance. Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 37 Demers, Patricia. The World of Hannah More. University Press of Kentucky, 1996. 24 Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952. 38 |
| names | Hannah More |
|
| Occupation | Mary Robinson | Still in her teens, Mary Darby (later MR
) was praised by the actor Thomas Hull
, and introduced to David Garrick
and Arthur Murphy
. Garrick decided to groom her as the Cordelia to... |
| Occupation | Leah Sumbel | From the age of five Mary Stephens Davies (later Mary Wells, then LS
) acted in children's roles in Birmingham: she made her debut as one of the little princes in the Tower in... |
| Occupation | Anna Miller | The day chosen was Friday, later switched to Thursday. The meetings took place in winter, the fashionable season at Bath, and upper-class visitors were eager to attend. Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
visited during the first... |
| Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's first play, the comedy The Runaway, opened at Drury Lane
, as the only new mainpiece of David Garrick
's final season; it had the successful run of seventeen nights. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 4: 1952 Link, Frederick M., and Hannah Cowley. “Introduction”. The Plays of Hannah Cowley, Vol. 1 , Garland, 1979, p. v - xlxx. vii, x |
| Performance of text | Hannah Cowley | HC
's farce or afterpiece Who's the Dupe? opened at Drury Lane
under Garrick
's successor, Sheridan
. It was normal practice for light-hearted sketches to follow more serious plays to complete the evening's entertainment. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 246 |
| Performance of text | Hannah More | HM
had her first London opening: her second tragedy, Percy, was produced by David Garrick
at Covent Garden
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols. 5: 133 |
| Publishing | Sarah Fielding | This play had been written at least three years earlier by Dr Humphrey Bartholomew
, and given by him to SF
, apparently to revise. Soon after she submitted it, Garrick
expressed the opinion that... |
| Publishing | Mary Latter | After receiving an epistolary withering blast of Refusal of The Siege of Jerusalem from David Garrick
, ML
sent him a further indignant letter of protest. Garrick, David. Correspondence. Editor Boaden, James, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831, 2 vols. 1: 633 |
| Publishing | Dorothea Celesia |
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