Shakespeare and the legacy of loss / / Emily Hodgson Anderson.
How do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and artists, key among them David Garrick, struggled with these questions through...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor, Michigan : : University of Michigan Press,, 2018. ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the actor
- Against loss
- The chronology of Garrick
- Theatrical time
- Celebrating performance
- Black Garrick versus Richard III
- Aphra Behn and the memory of Othello
- Becoming Richard, becoming Othello
- Garrick, ascendant
- Hamlet, David Garrick, and Laurence Sterne
- Garrick and the immortality of the stage
- Theatrical Tristram
- Garrick's autopsy, "Yorick's" skull
- Retelling The winter's tale
- The return of Leontes
- "Perdita" Robinson and the burden of the past
- Reanimating Lady Macbeth
- Siddons and the memory of Garrick
- The merchant of Venice and memorial debts
- "Shakespeare's" Shylock
- Clive's Portia
- Trial by theater and tradition
- Macklin's exit, Garrick's stage
- Shakespeare, retired
- Garrick's farewell
- Siddons, offstage
- Mourning performance.