Garrick Claims the Stage: Acting as Social Emblem in Eighteenth-Century England: 10 (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

Whenever an actor is adopted by a culture that actor can fairly be said to represent certain composite features of the audience which applauds his efforts on the stage. In the remarkable degree that David Garrick was adopted by the mid-eighteenth-century English theater audience the resonance between his acting and that which his society found provocative must have been unusual in both its richness and its intensity. This study will attempt to describe the sympathy which existed between Garrick ...See More