Shakespeare and the legacy of loss / Emily Hodgson Anderson.

"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Anderson, Emily Hodgson, 1977- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Subjects:	Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history > England > London. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history > 1625-1800. Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 > Stage history > 1800-1950. Garrick, David, > 1717-1779 > Performances. Garrick, David, > 1717-1779 > Influence. Siddons, Sarah, > 1755-1831 > Performances. Garrick, David, > 1717-1779 Shakespeare, William, > 1564-1616 Siddons, Sarah, > 1755-1831 1625-1950 PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > Shakespeare. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Performances England > London
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Table of Contents:

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.

Shakespeare and the legacy of loss / Emily Hodgson Anderson.

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