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	David Garrick - LoveToKnow 1911
		DAVID GARRICK (1717-1779), English actor and theatrical manager, was descended from a good French Protestant family named Garric or Garrique of Bordeaux, which had settled in England on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
		Garrick, who called her " the best of women and wives," lived most happily with her in his villa at Hampton, acquired by him in 1754, whither he was glad to escape from his house in Southampton Street.
		Garrick practically ceased to act in 1766, but he continued the management of Drury Lane, and in 1769 organized the Shakespeare celebrations at Stratford-on-Avon, an undertaking which ended in dismal failure, though he composed an " Ode upon dedicating a building and erecting a Statue to Shakespeare " on the occasion.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /David_Garrick (2355 words)

	David Garrick
		DAVID GARRICK, descended from a French Protestant family of the name of Garric, or Garrique, was born on the 20th of February, 1717, at the Angel Inn, Hereford.
		David was baptized on the 28th of February, according to the register of the church of All Saints, Hereford.
		Garrick survived her husband forty-three years, and expired suddenly in her chair after a short indisposition, at her house in the Adelphi, on the 16th of October, 1822, in the ninety-eighth year of her age, having retained her faculties to the last.
	www.theatredatabase.com /18th_century/david_garrick_001.html (1083 words)

	David Garrick
		Garrick was surrounded by many players of eminence, and he had the art, as he was told by Mrs.
		Garrick, who called her "the best of women and wives," lived most happily with her in his villa at Hampton, acquired by him in 1754, whither he was glad to escape from his house in Southampton Street.
		Garrick practically ceased to act in 1766, but he continued the management of Drury Lane, and in 1769 organized the Shakespeare celebrations at Stratford-on-Avon, an undertaking which ended in dismal failure, though he composed an "Ode upon dedicating a building and erecting a Statue to Shakespeare" on the occasion.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/garrick001.html (2175 words)

	David Garrick
		Garrick subsequently accompanied a party of players from the same theater to Ipswich, where he played his first part as an actor under the name of Lyddal, in the character of Aboan (in Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko).
		Garrick, who called her "the best of women and wives", lived most happily with her in his villa at Hampton, acquired by him in 1754, to where he was glad to escape from his house in Southampton Street.
		In 1763 Garrick and his wife visited Paris, where they were cordially received and made the acquaintance of Denis Diderot and others at the house of the baron d'Holbach.
	www.nndb.com /people/423/000087162 (2020 words)

	David Garrick - MSN Encarta
		Born in Hereford, Herefordshire, Garrick was a descendant of a French Huguenot family that had settled in England.
		Garrick's success led to his appearance in London the same year in the title role of Richard III, by English playwright William Shakespeare, in which Garrick scored a sensational triumph.
		Garrick was equally skilled in tragedy, comedy, and farce.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761572402 (499 words)

	DAVID GARRICK
		David Garrick was the most innovative and successful actor and manager of the Eighteenth Century.
		Young David began his education at the Lichfield Grammar School, but was sent in 1736 to study at the "academy" newly opened by Samuel Johnson at Edial.
		Garrick soon tired of his legal studies and entered the wine trade, but soon found his time spent in amateur theatricals.
	www.wayneturney.20m.com /garrickdavid.htm (458 words)

	David Garrick - Encyclopedia.com
		Garrick made his formal debut in 1742 as Richard III and was an immediate success.
		David was born in Provo, Utah April 17, 1957 to Ilyn David and Janet Kenner Garrick.
		David was married to Cheryl Stoddard and later divorced...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Garrick.html (1067 words)

	Covent Garden History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		David Garrick was born on 19 February 1717 in Hereford, he spent his boyhood in Lichfield, where, for a short while, he and his brother George attended the “select academy” run by Samuel Johnson.
		Garrick Street came into being in the 1860s and was principally a thoroughfare but soon became a desirable street for lodgings and businesses.
		Today the Garrick Club has around 1,300 members including many of the most distinguished actors and men of letters in England which ensures that the lively atmosphere for which the club was so well-known in the Nineteenth Century continues to invigorate members of the club in the Twenty-first.
	www.coventgarden.uk.com /garrick.html (720 words)

	Egobrowser: David Garrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		David Garrick said of Tetty that she was 'a silly affected woman; fat, over-painted, full of girlish airs and graces and overfond of cordials'; but then.
		David Garrick said of him 'his cranium is so crammed with genius of every kind that it is in danger of bursting on you like a steam engine overcharged'.
		David Garrick was born on 19 February 1717 in Hereford, England.
	blog.outer-court.com /egobrowser/David-Garrick.html (192 words)

	Lichfield - David Garrick
		Although born in Hereford, Garrick's family home was Lichfield and his house stood on the site of the old library in Bird Street.
		Garrick's talents as a mimic were recognised early and he made his stage debut in the Bishop’s Palace in the Close in Farquhar's comedy 'The Recruiting Officer'.
		As a manager Garrick introduced many much-needed reforms to his theatre, including improved lighting and clearing his stage of the richer members of the audience.
	www.lichfield.gov.uk /history-dg.ihtml (308 words)

	Garrick, David
		Garrick was of French and Irish descent, the son of Peter Garrick, a captain in the English Army, and Arabella Clough, the daughter of a vicar choral at Lichfield cathedral who was of Irish extraction.
		David had spent some months at Lisbon as apprentice to his uncle, a vintner, and he and his elder brother set up as Garrick and Co., wine merchants--Peter at Lichfield and David in London, in Durham Yard, off the Strand.
		Garrick suffered agonies from what was, apparently, a slipped disk, and Garrick contracted typhoid in Venice and nearly died in Munich.
	search.eb.com /shakespeare/micro/227/51.html (2562 words)

	Lichfield Garrick, David Garrick's Life
		David Garrick was born in Hereford, on February 19th 1717.
		David and his brother George were the first and last students at the Academy at Edial which had been recently established by Doctor Samuel Johnson.
		Garrick quickly challenged anything that threatened to undermine the level of his prestige and respectability within the theatre community.
	www.lichfieldgarrick.com /site/scripts/module.php?webSubSectionID=8 (689 words)

	David Garrick - Encyclopedia.com
		David Garrick, George III, and the politics of revision.
		David Garrick, William Woodfall, and a new source for the life of John Cunningham (1729-1773).
		Garrick was also a lay liturgical leader and a...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O142-GarrickDavid.html (912 words)

	David Garrick - London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
		David Garrick (1717-79) was the most celebrated actor of his age.
		Manager of the Drury Lane Theatre, write, bibliophile and patron, Garrick was perhaps the first actor to be accepted into intellectual and aristocratic circles.
		Garrick was one of the most depicted men of his day.
	www.richmond.gov.uk /home/leisure_and_culture/arts/orleans_house_gallery/orleans_house_gallery_collection_catalogue/people_in_the_orleans_house_gallery_collection/david_garrick.htm (393 words)

	David Garrick - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Garrick, David (1717-1779), British actor, theatrical manager, and playwright, regarded as one of the greatest actors of the British theater.
		Acting and Actors: Garrick was pure gold beat…, Courage: Come cheer up, my lads!…, Epitaphs: Here lies David Garrick, describe…, Epitaphs: Here...
		David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice...
	encarta.msn.com /David_Garrick.html (167 words)

	DAVID GARRICK (1717-1779) - Online Information article about DAVID GARRICK (1717-1779)
		Churchill wrote, in the Rosciad (1761),1 to be pleased with Garrick.
		imagination; and it was in a reply to a pamphlet occasioned by Garrick's visit that Diderot first gave expression to the views expounded in his Paradoxe sur le comedien.
		Cibber, with whom he had been reconciled, died in 1766, and Mrs (Kitty) Clive retired in 1769; but Garrick contrived to maintain the success of his theatre.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GAG_GEO/GARRICK_DAVID_1717_1779_.html (3602 words)

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		David Garrick was a massive personality in 18th century theatre and was one of the prime contributors to modern concepts of drama.
		David Garrick was born February 19,1717 in Hereford, England to the daughter of a vicar in the Lichfield Cathedral and an army officer.
		Garrick's contributions to the theatre are quite extensive and he is certainly one of the largest personalities in the world of 18th century drama.
	www.gwu.edu /~klarsen/actors.html (5594 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Down and out in Hollywood - life of gay priest, Father David Garrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		David Garrick's most recent job was as a Pinkerton security guard for "The Tonight Show." It paid $6.60 an hour.
		Garrick was a member of the Congregation of the Holy Cross and an assistant drama professor at the University of Notre Dame.
		Garrick left the university in 1998, saying he'd become the victim of discrimination by his religious order after he announced he was gay.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_11_37/ai_69795301 (1537 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| The battle of respectability in English theatre
		David Garrick has a street, a theatre, a club and - in Lichfield, where he was born - a tea room named after him.
		Garrick himself wrote a new ending to Macbeth, in which the hero expressed remorse as the gates of hell gape open.
		Garrick went to Drury Lane in 1747 and Goethe was born two years later.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,804099,00.html (2022 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| David Garrick in Italy, Thomas Patch (1763)
		Subject: David Garrick (1716-79) rivalled the monarchy in the number of times he was portrayed in his lifetime.
		Garrick's image was disseminated in an unprecedented way for an actor, anticipating modern cults of celebrity.
		Garrick's marriage is always emphasised in his portraits as part of his middle-class domestic civility.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/portrait/story/0,11109,1075245,00.html (565 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - David Garrick
		Garrick is one of Britain’s greatest actors and the first to be called a star.
		Garrick preferred a more easy, natural manner of speech and movement.
		Whilst modern audiences would probably laugh at the sight of the hair on an actor’s wig standing on end, such was the force of Garrick’s performance in the scene where Hamlet meets his father’s ghost that audiences were filled will absolute terror.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /guided_tours/drama_tour/18th_century/garrick.php (439 words)

	David Garrick Biography and Summary
		Two hundred years after his death what we know of David Garrick confirms that he was one of the true theatrical geniuses of all time.
		For David Garrick, the acquiring and reading of books were sidelines to a strenuous professional life as the most outstanding English actor and theater manager of the eighteenth century.
		David Garrick(19 February 1717- 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer.
	www.bookrags.com /David_Garrick (205 words)

	Folger Library Exhibits David Garrick (washingtonpost.com)
		Garrick's talent for self-advertisement made him one of the inventors of show business.
		Also in the show is the majestic carved chair for the president of the Shakespeare Club, which met in the temple.
		Tea sets, perfume bottles and Wedgwood china figures were made in Garrick's image and are part of the exhibit.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A9712-2005Apr22_2.html (183 words)

	Our Man in Stratford » David Garrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		But the task of ensuring that Shakespeare’s name was secure in the world of theatre fell to the aforementioned actor David Garrick.
		Seventeen years earlier, in 1742, the actor David Garrick, and another young actor, Charles Macklin, sat drinking wine with Sir Hugh Clopton under the huge mulberry tree in Shakespeare’s great garden at New Place.
		This interest in all things Shakespearean was due to the aforementioned David Garrick, who had popularised Shakespeare so much that the theatre hungry London crowds who had devoured Shakespeare’s works now wished to discover his origins as well.
	www.stratfordreport.com /category/david-garrick (1290 words)

	Garrick, David -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		David Garrick in the title role of Richard III, 1810
		He ranked with actors David Garrick and Sir Henry Irving and was especially known for his portrayal of the title role in Shakespeare's ‘Othello'.
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	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9036117?tocId=9036117&query=kitty (734 words)

	David Garrick Esq.
		David Garrick was the best-known British actor of the eighteenth century because of his ability to exude grace and self-confidence on stage.
		Artists depicted Garrick in a variety of guises, but in this portrait he is shown as himself.
		In comparison to the French actress Lecouvreur, shown in a tragic role in the engraving by Drevet, Garrick appears staid and confident as he gazes directly at the viewer.
	www.ackland.org /art/exhibitions/reasonfantasy/cdorin2.htm (193 words)

	Stepney Folk:David Garrick the actor
		David Garrick (1717-79), who was born in Hereford, made his London debut, appearing in Richard III, at the unlicensed theatre in Alie Street, Goodmans Fields on October 19th 1741.
		The Garrick Theatre, Leman Street, Whitechapel, opened in 1831 and closed c.
		Playbill advertising THE FOUNDLING OF THE FOREST and THE BATH ROAD and THE HOLLYTREE INN, with a concert and variety entertainments, for the benefit of Louis Levite, the Harlequin, at the Garrick Theatre, Leman Street, 23 January 1856.
	website.lineone.net /~fight/Stepney/garrick.htm (228 words)

	David Garrick
		David Garrick (1717-1779), the great actor of his age, was responsible for bringing a new appreciation to Shakespearean acting.
		This led to a tour of Dublin with Peg Woffington, followed by a permanent engagement at Drury Lane where he made his fortune.
		Garrick was also famous for King Lear, Hamlet, and Abel Drugger in "The Alchemist."
	webpages.acs.ttu.edu /wgelber/david_garrick.htm (151 words)

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