David Garrick Presents The Padlock: An 18th-Century 'Hit'

Autor:	Robert Fahrner
Rok vydání:	1972
Předmět:	Literature Blank verse Visual Arts and Performing Arts business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Taste (sociology) Tragedy (event) Art business media_common
Zdroj:	Theatre Survey. 13:52-69
ISSN:	1475-4533 0040-5574
DOI:	10.1017/s0040557400004841
Popis:	The importance of the afterpiece in David Garrick's managerial scheme is generally acknowledged, though most grant too casually, perhaps, that the “English Roscius” was also a practical and clever theatrical entrepreneur. He understood the popular taste and, even as he attempted to improve that taste, he catered to it for obvious financial reasons. Had a Londoner visited Drury Lane on the night of 3 October 1768, therefore, and dutifully witnessed the “prisons, racks, and death” of The Earl of Warwick, Dr. Thomas Francklin's patriotic exercise in pseudo-istorical, blank verse tragedy, he would have been rewarded with the premiere of The Padlock, a delightful afterpiece by Isaac Bickerstaffe and Charles Dibdin.
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