Title Shakespeare and the legacy of loss / Emily Hodgson Anderson

Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages) 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 Summary "This book looks at a British actor from the 1700s, David Garrick. By playing Shakespeare, Garrick raised the playwright to a position of new national importance, but in the process of doing so, he also activated Shakespeare as the social and cultural center around which he, and many other actors and even novelists, could work out questions about how to resist the evanescence of theater and life. How could the artist who stakes his fame on an ephemeral form of art be celebrated or preserved? How do approaches to commemoration change in light of these attempts? And how did Shakespeare become an emblem to other artists for how such preservation could be achieved? These are questions that Garrick, through Shakespeare, was able to ask, and questions that, thanks to Garrick, others would then take up. The chapters that follow tell the story of the answers they obtained"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 26, 2018) Subject Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England -- London Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1625-1800. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1800-1950. Garrick, David, 1717-1779 -- Performances Garrick, David, 1717-1779 -- Influence Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831 -- Performances SUBJECT Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831 -- Performances Garrick, David, 1717-1779 -- Influence Garrick, David, 1717-1779 -- Performances Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1800-1950 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- 1625-1800 Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history -- England -- London Garrick, David, 1717-1779 fast Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Siddons, Sarah, 1755-1831 fast Subject PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Performances England -- London Form Electronic book LC no. 2018013531 ISBN 9780472124121 0472124129 0472130935 9780472130931 0472902369 9780472902361

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