KRAJNÍK, Filip. Restored and De-restored : Killing Off Garrick in John Philip Kemble's King Lear. Theatralia. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2021, vol. 24, No 1, p. 92-100. ISSN 1803-845X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/TY2021-1-7.
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Original name Restored and De-restored : Killing Off Garrick in John Philip Kemble's King Lear
Authors KRAJNÍK, Filip (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Theatralia, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2021, 1803-845X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60206 Specific literatures
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW Plný text článku.
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119576
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/TY2021-1-7
Keywords in English Adaptation of Shakespeare; David Garrick; Eighteenth century English theatre; George Colman; John Philip Kemble; King Lear; Nahum Tate; Restoration theatre; William Shakespeare
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Nahum Tate's Restoration version of King Lear (1680 or 1681) managed to replace Shakespeare's original on English stages for more than a century and a half. While the efforts of David Garick and George Colman to reinstate Shakespeare's plot and language in English theatres in the latter half of the eighteenth century have been acknowledged, little has been said in this respect about the late eighteenth-century actor and theatre manager John Philip Kemble and his version of the play that premiered in 1792. The present article will try to propose the possible motivation of Kemble's step to discard Garrick's popular alteration and will also argue that the decision to erase Garrick's restorations and recur essentially to Tate's outmoded version of the play at the end of the eighteenth century was probably one of the factors that helped to restore Shakespeare's original in English theatres when King Lear was revived in the 1820s after a decade-long hiatus.
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GA19-07494S, research and development projectName: Anglická divadelní kultura 1660-1737
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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