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Garrick's Roles at Ipswich in the Summer of 1741

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Leigh Woods
Affiliation:
Indiana University

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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1985

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Notes

1 Among recent historians, Sybil Rosenfeld has described most clearly the fragmentary and elliptical nature of the pertinent evidence at Ipswich, in Strolling Players and Drama in the Provinces (Cambridge: The University Press, 1939), pp. 100101Google Scholar.

2 Davies, Thomas, Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq. (London: Printed for the Author, 1780), I, 1718Google Scholar.

3 Murphy, Arthur, The Life of David Garrick, Esq. (London: Printed for J. Wright, 1801), I, 1819Google Scholar.

4 Fitzgerald, Percy, The Life of David Garrick, revised edition (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., Ltd., 1899), pp. 35n.–36Google Scholar.

5 Rosenfeld, pp. 100–01.

6 Oman, Carola, David Garrick (Bungay, Suffolk: Hodder & Stoughton, 1958), pp. 33, 388Google Scholar.

7 Highfill, Philip H., JrBurnim, Kalman A., and Langhans, Edward A., A Biographical Dictionary of Actors and Actresses…in London, 1660–1800, volume 6: Garrick to Gyngell (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978), p. 4Google Scholar.

8 Stone, George Winchester Jr, and Kahrl, George M., David Garrick: A Critical Biography (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1979), p. 24Google Scholar.

9 Davies, I, 37–38.

10 See The Letters of David Garrick, ed. Little, David M. and Kahrl, George M. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963), I, 34Google Scholar.

11 From the composite list, comic roles include Captain Brazen, Sir Harry Wildair, Lord Foppington, Ventre-Bleu, Rakeit, Duretete, Dr. Caius, Osric, and Harlequin. The only tragic roles from this list are Aboan, Chamont, and Orestes. Davies' list of character-types includes seven on the side of comedy, namely Clown, Fop, Fine Gentleman, Man of Humour, Sot, Valet, and Harlequin, and only two from tragedy — Lover and Hero.