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David Garrick and the Development of English Comedy : a Study of Adaptation on the Eighteenth-Century Stage.

David Garrick was an assiduous reader and collector of older English, and to some extent French plays and we can see him looking backwards, searching out and buying extant play collections offered for sale. Some of these plays he remodeled and imitated for his company. Looking forward, beyond him, w...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swanson, Alan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
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