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

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F21%3A00119576" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/21:00119576 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/143816" target="_blank" >https://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/143816</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/TY2021-1-7" target="_blank" >10.5817/TY2021-1-7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

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

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-07494S" target="_blank" >GA19-07494S: English Theatre Culture 1660-1737</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theatralia

ISSN

1803-845X

e-ISSN

2336-4548

Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

92-100

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85106920033