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  title info:
    title: David Garrick and the mediation of celebrity
  name:
    name part: Ritchie, Leslie
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: What happens when an actor owns shares in the stage on which he performs and the newspapers that review his performances? Celebrity that lasts over 240 years. From 1741, David Garrick dominated the London theater world as the progenitor of a new 'natural' style of acting. From 1747 to 1776, he was a part-owner and manager of Drury Lane, controlling most aspects of the theater's life. In a spectacular foreshadowing of today's media convergences, he also owned shares in papers including the St. James's Chronicle and the Public Advertiser, which advertised and reviewed Drury Lane's theatrical productions. This book explores the nearly inconceivable level of cultural power generated by Garrick's entrepreneurial manufacture and mediation of his own celebrity. Using new technologies and extensive archival research, this book uncovers fresh material concerning Garrick's ownership and manipulation of the media, offering timely reflections for theater history and media studies.
  table of contents: Introduction: David Garrick and the mediation of celebrity -- A view of London's mediascape, circa 1741-1776 -- Proofs: Garrick's involvement in the mediascape -- Advertising and brand Garrick: infinite variety -- A short history of negative publicity -- Prompting, inside & outside the theatre -- Conclusion: Garrick re-collected.
  note: Leslie Ritchie.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Garrick, David
      name part: 1717-1779
  subject:
    topic: Mass media and theater
    geographic: England
    geographic: London
    topic: History
    temporal: 18th century
  classification: PN2593 .R58 2019
  classification: 792.02/8092
  identifier: 9781108475877
  identifier: 1108475876
  identifier: 9781108469197
  identifier: 1108469191
  identifier: 2018042528
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180918
    record change date: 20190718163218.0
    record identifier: in00004059744