Lives of Shakespearian Actors, Part I

David Garrick, Charles Macklin and Margaret Woffington by Their Contemporaries

• Author(s): Gail Marshall, Tetsuo Kishi, Nicola Shaughnessy, Robert Shaughnessy,
• Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
• Pages: 1200
• ISBN_10: 1851968539
  ISBN_13: 9781851968534
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts , Biography & Autobiography / Reference , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Shakespeare ,

Description:... Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.