Annotated bibliography of readings related to David Garrick

This article is related to the exhibition, David Garrick, 1717-1779: A Theatrical Life.

This Annotated bibliography of readings related to David Garrick is not meant to be comprehensive but to provide a variety of resources about the life and times of David Garrick. The list includes Electronic Resources (including Archives and Repositories), Biographies, Plays, Correspondence, Criticism (1980–2005), Art, Auction Catalogs, and Bibliographies. For purposes of accessibility, this list focuses on books in English.

Electronic Resources

For additional online resources, see also Archives and Depositories.

Websites

Lichfield (England). Lichfield City Council

Website. http://www.lichfield.gov.uk/

Orleans House Gallery. Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare.

Website: http://www.garrickstemple.org.uk/

British Museum. Marble Full-Length Figure of William Shakespeare by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1758.

Website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/m/marble_full-length_figure_of_w.aspx

Twickenham Museum. Garrick's Temple: A Shrine to Shakespeare.

Website: http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.asp?ContentID=286

Twickenham Museum. Garrick's Villa: His "Little Place at Hampton".

Website: http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.asp?ContentID=287

Online Editions

For additional editions, also see Print Editions.

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Preparation copy made by David Garrick. London: Printed for J. Tonson, and the rest of the Proprietors, 1734.

Folger Call Number: PROMPT M.N.D. 06. Digital edition.

The University of Pennsylvania Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image has digitized many items in their collection, including two plays altered by Garrick.

Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet / by Shakespeare; with alterations, and an additional scene: by D. Garrick; as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London: Printed for J&R Tonson & S. Draper, 1753.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Shakespeare Library Call Number: PR2831 A2 G37 1753. Digital edition.

——. The taming of the shrew, or, Catherine and Petruchio / a comedy altered from Shakespeare by David Garrick, esq. Marked with the variations in the manager's book at the Theatre-royal in Covent-garden. London: Printed for C. Bathurst [et al.], 1786.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Shakespeare Library Call Number: C59 Sh1TaK. Digital edition.

Databases

Association of Performing Arts Collections (APAC), UK.

Website: http://www.performingartscollections.org.uk

National Archives (Great Britain). A2A: Access to Archives.

Website: http://www.a2a.org.uk/

Biography

Monographs

Baker, David Erskine, Isaac Reed, and Stephen Jones. Biographia Dramatica; or, a Companion to the Playhouse: Containing Historical and Critical Memoirs, and Original Anecdotes of British and Irish Dramatic Writers, from the Commencement of Our Theatrical Exhibitions. New York: AMS Press, 1966.

First published anonymously in 1764 under title: The companion to the playhouse.

Folger Call Number: Z2014.D7B2 1764 Cage (c1764)

Barton, Margaret. Garrick. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1978, c1948.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 B3 (c1948)

Benedetti, Jean. David Garrick and the Birth of Modern Theatre. London: Methuen, 2001.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 B46 2001

Burnim, Kalman A. David Garrick, Director. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 1961.

Folger Call Number: PR3469 .B91

Davies, Thomas. Dramatic Micellanies [sic] Consisting of Critical Observations on Several Plays of Shakspeare: With a Review of His Principal Characters, and Those of Various Eminent Writers, as Represented by Mr. Garrick, and Other Celebrated Comedians, with Anecdotes of Dramatic Poets, Actors, &C. New York: AMS Press, 1973.

Reprint of the 1784 edition.

Folger Call Number:

Davies, Thomas, and David Garrick. Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick. A new ed. New York: B. Blom, 1969.

Reprint of the 1808 edition.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 D3 1808 (c1808)

England, Martha Winburn. Garrick and Stratford. New York: New York Public Library, 1962.

Folger Call Number: PR2923 1769 .E7

England, Martha Winburn. Garrick's Jubilee. Columbus: OSU Press, 1964.

Folger Call Number: PR2923 1769 .E75

Findlater, Richard. Six Great Actors: David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Edmund Kean, W. C. Macready, Sir Henry Irving, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson. London: H. Hamilton, 1957.

Folger Call Number:

Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington. The Life of David Garrick; from Original Family Papers, and Numerous Published and Unpublished Sources. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Plutarch Press, 1971.

Reprint of the 1868 edition.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 F5 (c1868)

Fox, Levi. A Splendid Occasion: the Stratford Jubilee of 1769, Occasional papers; no. 20. Stratford-upon-Avon: Dugdale Society, 1973.

Folger Call Number: DA670.W3 D89 no. 18-25

Hedgcock, Frank A. A Cosmopolitan Actor: David Garrick and His French Friends. London: S. Paul, 1912.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 H4

Kendall, Alan. David Garrick: A Biography. New York: St. Martin's, 1986.

Folger Call Number: K46 1985

Knight, Joseph. David Garrick. New York: B. Blom, 1969.

Reprint of the 1894 edition.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 K5 (c1894)

Matthews, Brander, and Laurence Hutton. Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States, from the Days of David Garrick to the Present Time. New York: Cassell & co., 1886.

Folger Call Number: PN2597 .M3

McIntyre, Ian. Garrick. London: Allen Lane, 1999.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 M45 1999

Murphy, Arthur. The Life of David Garrick. New York: B. Blom, 1969.

Reprint of the 1801 edition.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 M71 1801 Cage (c1801)

Oman, Carola. David Garrick. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1958.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 L43

Parsons, Florence Mary Wilson. Garrick and His Circle. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 P3

Perrin, Michel. David Garrick: Homme de Théâtre. 2 v. Lille: Atelier Reproduction des thèses, Université Lille III; Paris: diffusion H. Champion, 1978.

Folger Call Number: PN2598.G3 P4

Stein, Elizabeth P. David Garrick, Dramatist. New York: MLA, 1938.

Folger Call Number: PR3469 .S8

Stochholm, Johanne M. Garrick's Folly: the Shakespeare Jubilee of 1769 at Stratford and Drury Lane. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1964.

Folger Call Number: PR2923 1769 .S8

Weir, Rosemary. The young David Garrick. New York: Roy Publishers, 1964.

A biography written for children.

Folger Call Number:

Essays

Highfill, Philip H., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800. 16 vol. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973.

Vol. 6 includes biographical entries on David, Eva Maria, and George Garrick.

Folger Call Number: PN2597 .H5

Knight, Joseph. "Garrick, David (1717–1779)." In The Dictionary of National Biography, edited by Leslie Stephen, vol. 7: 895–906. London: Oxford University Press, 1889. 1921–22 Reprint.

Folger Call Number: DA28 .D47 Deck A-Ref

Steedman, W. "The Early Years of Mrs. Garrick." Theatre Research International 4 (1979): 94–102.

Folger Call Number: PN2001 .T557

Thaddeus, Janice Farrar. "A Spirit Free and Female: Eva Maria Garrick." Eighteenth Century Life 10, no. 3 (1986): 86–103.

Folger Call Number: CB411 .E4

Thomson, Peter. "Garrick [Née Veigel], Eva Maria [Performing Name Violette] (1724–1822)." In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, vol. 21: 537–38. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Folger Call Number: DA28.D4 O95 2004

Thomson, Peter. "Garrick, David (1717–1779)." In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, vol. 21: 527–37. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Folger Call Number: DA28.D4 O95 2004

Print Editions

For additional items, also see Online Editions.

Plays

Garrick, David. The Clandestine Marriage by David Garrick & George Colman the elder. Together with Two Short Plays. Edited by Noel Chevalier. Broadview literary texts. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 1995.

Folger Call Number: PR3467 .C53 1995

——. Cornmarket Acting Versions of Shakespeare's Plays From the Restoration to the Death of David Garrick. London: Cornmarket Press, 1969–1970.

Ten Garrick versions are included in this series of facsimilies of eighteenth-century editions held by the Birmingham Shakespeare Library.

Folger Call Number:

——. The Dramatic Works. Farnborough: Gregg, 1969.

Facsimile reprint of 1st ed., London: Millar, 1798.

Folger Call Number: PR3465 1969

——. The Plays of David Garrick. Edited by Gerald M. Berkowitz. Eighteenth-Century English Drama; 16. 4 vols. New York: Garland Pub., 1981.

Folger Call Number: PR3465 1981.

——. The Plays of David Garrick: A Complete Collection of the Social Satires, French Adaptations, Pantomimes, Christmas and Musical Plays, Preludes, Interludes, and Burlesques, to Which Are Added the Alterations and Adaptations of the Plays of Shakespeare and Other Dramatists from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries. Edited by Harry Pedicord, William Pedicord, and Fredrick Louis Bergmann. 7 vols. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1980.

Folger Call Number: PR3465 1980

——. Plays by David Garrick and George Colman the Elder. Edited by E. R. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Folger Call Number: PR3465.A5 W6

——. Three Farces. Edited by Louise Brown Osborn. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925.

Includes The Lying Valet. A Peep Behind the Curtain; or, The New Rehearsal. Bon ton; or, High Life Above Stairs

Folger Call Number: PR3465.A5 O7

——. Three Plays, printed from hitherto unpublished mss. Edited by Elizabeth P. Stein. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926.

Includes Harlequin’s invasion. The jubilee. The meeting of the company.

Folger Call Number: PR3465.A5 S8

Poetry

Garrick, David. The Bankrupt Beauty: David Garrick's Unpublished Poem to the Honourable Mrs. Bouverie. Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California, 1992.

Folger Call Number: PR3467 .B35 1992

——. The Poetical Works. New York: B. Blom, 1968.

Reprint of the 1785 ed.

Folger Call Number: PR3465.A2 1785 Cage (c1785)

——. Selected Verse. Edited by J. D. Hainsworth. University of New England Monographs 2. Armidale: University of New England, 1981.

Folger Call Number: PR3466 .P6 1981

Correspondence and Diaries

Baker, George Pierce, ed. Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1907.

Boaden, James, ed. The Private Correspondence of David Garrick, with the Most Celebrated Persons of His Time: Now First Pub. From the Originals, and Illustrated with Notes. And a New Biographical Memoir of Garrick. London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1831.

Dircks, P. T. "Thomas Arne to David Garrick: An Unrecorded Letter." Theatre Notebook 30, no. 2 (1976): 87–90.

Goslin, Ryllis Clair Alexander, ed. The Diary of David Garrick, Being a Record of His Memorable Trip to Paris in 1751. New York: Oxford University Press, 1928.

Gury, Jacques. "A Letter to David Garrick." Notes and Queries 23, no. 11 (1976): 504–06.

Kahrl, George Morrow, ed. The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone, The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, His Correspondence; vol. 4. London: Heinemann, 1986.

Little, David Mason, ed. Pineapples of Finest Flavour, or, a Selection of Sundry Unpublished Letters of the English Roscius, David Garrick. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1930.

Little, David Mason and George Morrow Kahrl, eds. The Letters of David Garrick. 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963.

National Art Library (Great Britain). Victoria and Albert Museum. John Forster Collection. The Papers of David Garrick. Pt. 1. Correspondence from the John Forster Collection of the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Reading, England: Research Publications, 1988. 10 microfilm reels.

Nicholls, James C., ed. Mme Riccoboni's Letters to David Hume, David Garrick, and Sir Robert Liston, 1764–1783, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century; vol. 149. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation at the Taylor Institution, 1976.

Pedicord, Harry William. "Mr. And Mrs. Garrick: Some Unpublished Correspondence." PMLA (1945): 775–83.

Spencer, Albert Edward John, and Christopher Dobson, eds. Letters of David Garrick and Georgiana, Countess Spencer, 1759–1779. Cambridge: Printed for presentation to members of the Roxburghe Club, 1960.

Stone, George Winchester, ed. The Journal of David Garrick, Describing His Visit to France and Italy in 1763. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1939.

Tierney, James E. "Two New Garrick Letters [to Dr. William Falconer]." Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 83, no. 1 (1980): 172–73.

Williams, Charles Riddell. "David Garrick, Actor–Manager: Two Unpublished Letters [to actor Thomas Love]." Cornhill Magazine 3rd. ser., v. 66 (1929): 289–97.