A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London 1660-1800 PDF
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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & title: Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660- 1800. Vol. 6, Garrick to Gyngell Highfill, Philip H.; Burnim, Kalman A.; author: Langhans, Edward A. publisher: Southern Illinois University Press isbn10 | asin: 0809308339 print isbn13: 9780809308330 ebook isbn13: 9780585031507 language: English Performing arts--England--London-- Biography--Dictionaries , Actors--England-- London--Biography--Dictionaries , subject Theatrical managers--England--London-- Biography--Dictionaries , London (England)--Biography--Dictionaries. publication date: 1978 lcc: PN2597.H54 1978eb ddc: 790.2/092 Performing arts--England--London-- Biography--Dictionaries , Actors--England-- London--Biography--Dictionaries , subject: Theatrical managers--England--London-- Biography--Dictionaries , London (England)--Biography--Dictionaries. National Portrait Gallery David Garrick by Thomas Gainsborough A Biographical Dictionary Of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel In London, 16601800 Volume 6: Garrick to Gyngell by PHILIP H. HIGHFILL, JR., KALMAN A. BURNIM and EDWARD A. LANGHANS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS CARBONDALE AND EDWARDSVILLE Copyright © 1978 by Southern Illinois University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Designed by Andor Braun and George Lenox Extracts from the letters of David Garrick are reprinted by permission of the publishers from The Letters of David Garrick, David M. Little, George M. Kahrl, and Phoebe de K. Wilson, editors. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1963 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Publication of this work was made possible in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data (Revised) Highfill, Philip H., Jr A biographical dictionary of actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, man- agers & other stage personnel in London, 16601800. Includes bibliographical references. CONTENTS: v. 1. Abaco to Belfille.v. 2. Belfort to Byzand.v. 3. Cabanel to Cory.v. 4. Corye to Dynion.v. 5. Eagan to Garrett.v. 6. Garrick to Gyngell. 1. Performing artsLondonBiography. I. Burnim, Kalman A., joint author. II. Langhans, Edward A., joint author. III. Title. PN2597.H5 790.2'092'2 {B} 71157068 ISBN 0809308339 (v. 6) List of Illustrations Playbills, Tickets, Accounts, And Casts Theatre Checks and Tickets, 16711817 477 Ticket for Handel's Samson at Covent 478 Garden, 1752 Southwark Fair Playbill, Restoration 479 Drury Lane Theatre Playbill, 1692 480 Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre Playbill, 1697 480 Drury Lane Theatree Playbill, 1703 481 Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre Ticket, 1716 481 Queen's Theatre Playbill, 1709 482 Drury Lane Theatre Playbill, 1718 483 Covent Garden Theatre Playbill, 1745 484 Covent Garden Theatre Playbill, 1773 485 Covent Garden Theatre Playbill, 1775 486 Covent Garden Theatre Playbill, 1775 487 Drury Lane Theatre Playbill, 1776 488 Manuscript cast for Etherege's The Man of 489 Mode, 1684 Manuscript cast for Tate's King Lear, 1681 490 Pages from Cibber's Opera Myrtillo, 1715 490 United Company Accounts, 1682 491 Proposed Salary Schedule for a New 492 Acting Company, c. 1703 Proposed Personnel for a New Acting 493 Company, c. 1703 Drury Lane Theatre Accounts, 1714 494 Drury Lane Theatre Accounts, 1714 495 Drury Lane Theatre Accounts, 1722 496 Drury Lane Theatre Accounts, 1726 497 Letter from Cibber, Wilks, and Booth, 1726 498 Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre Accounts, 499 1727 Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre Accounts, 500 1727 Covent Garden Theatre Accounts, 1759 501 Covent Garden Theatre Accounts, 1760 502 Pages from Richard Cross "Prompter's 503 Diary," 1748 Pages from Cross-Hopkins "Prompter's 504 Diary," 1760 Volume 6 Garrick to Gyngell Page 1 Garrick, David 17171779, actor, manager, patentee, playwright, poet. David Garrick's grandfather, David de la Garrique, was a Huguenot of good family who fled France in 1685 after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. His eldest son Peter was brought to England in 1687 at the age of eighteen months. The family established itself in the little colony of French exiles in London. When Peter was 21, an ensign's commission was purchased for him in Tyrrel's regiment of dragoons, which was stationed at Lichfield. There he met and married Arabella Clough, who was the daughter of a vicar-choral of Lichfield Cathedral, Anthony Clough, and his wife Elizabeth, née Bailye, who was of Irish descent. David, the second son and third child of Peter and Arabella Garrick, was born on 19 February 1717 at the Angel Inn at Hereford and was baptized on 28 February at All Saints Church in that city, where Peter, by then a lieutenant, was on recruiting duty. The Garricks returned to Lichfield soon after David's birth and, except for one rather exotic interruption, there David remained through his twentieth year. He was put to study at the Lichfield Grammar School under the same ferocious Rev John Hunter who had whipped Samuel Johnson so brutally as to gain his lasting detestation and who would often palliate his cruelty to a boy being flogged by remarking "this I do to save you from the gallows." Garrick learned very little under that taskmaster. Neither did he seem to profit from the tutelage in trade of his uncle David, a wine dealer in Portugal, who brought his namesake to Lisbon about 1728 but did not keep him long. David seems to have made a social success clowning and reciting for the English merchants of Lisbon, but he showed no aptitude for the counting house. Like all Lichfield youngsters of promise, Garrick enjoyed the patronage and advice of the learned and kindly Gilbert Walmesley, Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court, who resided in the Palace of the absentee Bishop of Lichfield. The stories which are usually told concerning the precocity of notable actors are told of Garrick too, and doubtless some are true. He was said to have assembled a troupe of youngsters to perform The Recruiting Officer at the Palace, when he played Sergeant Kite to the applause of Walmesley and others. He is supposed to have asked the young Samuel Johnson, with whom he was already well acquainted, to write a prologue for him and to have been refused. David's childhood in Lichfield seems to have been happy, though straitened by poverty. His family was large, close-knit, and affectionate. He had an elder brother, Peter, and an elder sister, Magdalen, and four younger siblingsJane, William, George, and Merrial; and there were three others who died in infancy. Peter was sent early into the navy, and so it was the 16-year-old Harvard Theatre Collection David Garrick engraving by Cooper, after Pine
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