David Garrick

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Standard Name: Garrick, David

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Textual Production Hannah More
The opening performance (with Langhorne 's prologue, and David Garrick 's epilogue) was attended by HM , her four sisters, and Garrick. He proposed taking the play to Drury Lane, but More declined.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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Textual Production Hannah More
She had worked on it that spring, sending it one act at a time to David and Eva Maria Garrick , who were trenchantly and helpfully critical. David wrote a prologue and epilogue.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
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His...
Textual Production Hannah More
HM probably gave up the theatre (both writing for it and attending plays) less because of the loss of David Garrick or the conflict with Hannah Cowley than because of her religious belief, which presented...
Textual Production Hannah More
More said she was drawn to Montagu less by the lustre of your understanding, than by the amiable qualities of your heart.
More, Hannah. Essays on Various Subjects. J. Wilkie, T. Cadell, 1777.
prelims
Her work went through ten editions in ten years, and laid the...
Textual Production Hannah More
Dragon was David Garrick 's dog.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ann Hatton
The collection shows the poet as sensitive to the influences of canonical, that is fairly recent male, poetry. The dedication quotes Pope ; the Address to the Public says that not thirst of Fame but...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Frances Brooke
This novel became notorious for its hostile portrait of Garrick . It also complains of the lack of outlets for new plays, attacks Town and Country Magazine for its Tete-a-Tete feature of gossip or scandal...
Wealth and Poverty Anna Williams
David Garrick put on a benefit performance at Drury Lane Theatre for a Gentlewoman of Learning, distressed by blindness, that is AW .
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
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