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Mickle, Boswell, Garrick, and the siege of Marseilles
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ISBN: 0208021310 9780208021311 Year: 1986 Volume: 46, 1987 Publisher: Hamden : Archon books,


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David Garrick and the Development of English Comedy : A Study of Adaptation on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
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ISBN: 0773418067 9780773418066 9780773440579 0773440577 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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David Garrick was an assiduous reader and collector of older English, and to some extent French plays and we can see him looking backwards, searching out and buying extant play collections offered for sale. Some of these plays he remodeled and imitated for his company. Looking forward, beyond him, we can see that his work was in turn admired, read, and subsequently translated and imitated. Garrick the reader became Garrick the read. He forms, therefore, a bridge in the movement and development of comedy in the eighteenth century.Alan Swanson brings his considerable knowledge of theater and lin

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