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The Review of English Studies Advance Access originally published online on September 14, 2007
The Review of English Studies 2007 58(236):482-499; doi:10.1093/res/hgm087
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press 2007; all rights reserved

A Bundle of Prologues (1777): The Unpublished Text of Garrick's Last Rehearsal Play

Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume

The City University of New York, Graduate Center
The Pennsylvania State University


  Abstract

David Garrick's last dramatic composition was a curtain raiser featuring songs performed on 28 April 1777 (the year after his retirement) at the annual Drury Lane benefit for the Theatrical Fund for decayed actors. The piece is not mentioned in the modern edition or the standard biography, but it survives in manuscript in the Folger Shakespeare Library. Folger MS W.b. 461 is a scribal copy emended in at least three hands. Several of the additions and revisions are in Garrick's handwriting. The full text is printed here with textual apparatus, annotation identifying allusions and the performers, and a brief account of Garrick's late-life devotion to the charitable purposes of the Theatrical Fund.

For assistance in preparing this material for publication, we are indebted to Michael Burden, Ashley Marshall, David Wallace Spielman, and Heather Wolfe. For permission to publish the text of W.b. 461 we are grateful to the Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library.


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