Restored and De-restored : Killing Off Garrick in John Philip
Kemble's King Lear

J 2021

Restored and De-restored : Killing Off Garrick in John Philip Kemble's King Lear

KRAJNÍK, Filip

Basic information

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

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

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

Abstract

V originále

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.

Links

GA19-07494S, research and development project

Name: Anglická divadelní kultura 1660-1737

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

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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KRAJNÍK, Filip. Restored and De-restored : Killing Off Garrick in John Philip Kemble's King Lear. \textit{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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