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COMPLETE TITLE: An Examen of the New Comedy, Call'd The Suspicious Husband. With Some Observations upon our Dramatick Poetry and Authors; To which is added, A Word of Advice to Mr. G--rr--ck; and a Piece of Secret History.
AUTHOR: Text sometimes erronously attributed to Samuel Foote.
Along with a discussion of The Suspicious Huband by Benjamin Hoadly, the anonymous author offers some considerations on the tragic genius of Shakespeare and on Ben Johnson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Dryden, Lee, Otaway, Southern, Rowe, Addison, Lillo. These are followed by some considerations on Garrick's acting style, in the form of a letter. The text contains also an attack on the Treatise on the Passions by Samuel Foote (pp. 24-39) (see). Foote judgments on Garrick's interpretation of the role of Lear, in particular, are accused of being partial and imprecise.
LATER EDITIONS:
Third edition: Dublin, George Faulkner, 1747 (there are no traces of the second edition). |