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A Short Biography of David Garrick

Author Name:

David Garrick

Born As:

David Garrick

Other Names:

David Garrick

Born:

19 Feb 1717

Died:

20 Jan 1779




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Actor, manager and dramatist                          
Selected  Works:

Lethe: or, Aesop in the Shades - 1740
The Lying Valet - 1741
Miss in Her Teens; or, The Medley of Lovers - 1747
Lilliput - 1756
The Male Coquette; or, Seventeen Fifty Seven - 1757
The Guardian - 1759
Harlequin's Invasion - 1759
The Enchanter; or, Love and Magic - 1760
The Farmer's Return from London - 1762
The Clandestine Marriage - 1766
Neck or Nothing - 1766
Cymon - 1767
Linco's Travels - 1767
A Peep Behind the Curtain, or The New Rehearsal - 1767
The Jubilee - 1769
The Irish Widow - 1772
A Christmas Tale - 1773
The Meeting of the Company; or, Bayes's Art of Acting - 1774
Bon Ton; or, High Life Above Stairs - 1775
The Theatrical Candidates - 1775
May-Day; or, The Little Gypsy - 1775.                          
                          
                          
Pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson.