David Garrick
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David Garrick was an influential figure in the 18th century British theatre.[1][2][3]
He began as an actor. He later worked as a playwright and theatre owner.[1][2][3]
Garrick is said to have played a key role in changing how actors played their roles in the British theatre.[1][2][3] He played a role in plays, written by other playwrights, that appeared in his theatre, with scholars claiming he influenced over 60 plays.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Robert D. Hume. The Plays of David Garrick by David Garrick, Harry William Pedicord, Fredrick Louis Bergmann, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, October, 1981, pp. 578-581. Retrieved on 2022-06-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gerald Weales. Review: There's No Business like Show Business, The Sewanee Review, Summer, 1981, pp. 448-453. Retrieved on 2022-06-12.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gillian Skinner (2015). “Stage-plays ... and a thousand other amusements now in use”: Garrick’s response to antitheatrical discourse in the mid-eighteenth century 63-82. Restoration and eighteenth-century theatre research. Retrieved on 2022-06-12. “Bon Ton’s subtitle overtly connects the two-act comedy with an earlier afterpiece, James Townley’s High Life Below Stairs (1759).”