David Garrick
| THOROUGHLY enjoyed the BBC’s | David Garrick. It was admirably put together from the written evidence of his contemporaries, without any attempt at welding the whole into an inflexible mass. The incidents and comments were presented as they stood, from Samuel Foote’s acid account of Garrick’s venture in trade. ("He had four aguarts of vinecar in the cellar
: and called himself a wine merchant"), to the famous description of Partridge’s visit to the theatre, and his reactions to Garrick’s Hamlet. Foote’s caustic comments set the pace most of the way, and >
to do him justice they made good lis-| tening whether he was condemning the worship of the Mulberry Tree Planted by Shakespeare’s Own Hand or Davy’s character in general. ‘The brief description of Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee et Stratford-on-Avon, where the river overflowed its banks and the amphitheatre collapsed under strain was extremely effective in its choice of detail.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 463, 7 May 1948, Page 9
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150David Garrick New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 463, 7 May 1948, Page 9
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