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On-Stage with David Garrick: Garrick's Acting Companies in Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Harry William Pedicord
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As a victim of “Garrick fever” for all of my adult life I admit to having accepted most modern-day criticism which avers that Garrick's supremacy in his age was due to his superior acting, strict management, rigourous attention to rehearsals, and consequent superiority over his Covent Garden and Haymarket rivals. All this is surely valid, but I remain curious about the “quality” of his casting and ensembles. Could it be that our critics today prefer romanticism to the practical truths of everyday operation of a repertory company in eighteenth-century London? Let us explore the situation once again.

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Theatre Survey , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , November 1987 , pp. 51 - 74
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1987

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