Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss /

"This book looks at a British actor from the 1700s, David Garrick. By playing Shakespeare, Garrick raised the playwright to a position of new national importance, but in the process of doing so, he also activated Shakespeare as the social and cultural center around which he, and many other acto...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Anderson, Emily Hodgson, 1977- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Introduction: the actor
  • Against loss
  • The chronology of Garrick
  • Theatrical time
  • Celebrating performance
  • Black Garrick versus Richard III
  • Aphra Behn and the memory of Othello
  • Becoming Richard, becoming Othello
  • Garrick, ascendant
  • Hamlet, David Garrick, and Laurence Sterne
  • Garrick and the immortality of the stage
  • Theatrical Tristram
  • Garrick's autopsy, "Yorick's" skull
  • Retelling The winter's tale
  • The return of Leontes
  • "Perdita" Robinson and the burden of the past
  • Reanimating Lady Macbeth
  • Siddons and the memory of Garrick
  • The merchant of Venice and memorial debts
  • "Shakespeare's" Shylock
  • Clive's Portia
  • Trial by theater and tradition
  • Macklin's exit, Garrick's stage
  • Shakespeare, retired
  • Garrick's farewell
  • Siddons, offstage
  • Mourning performance.