Strive not Tragedy nor Comedy to Engross a Garrick, who to your Noblest Characters does Equal Honour

by Chas. after Sir Joshua Reynolds Corbutt, pseudonym R.

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One of the most famous portraits of the actor David Garrick by Sir Joshua Reynolds. David Garrick 1717-1779 was perhaps the most influential actor in the English theater. He successfully took on all aspects of theatrical production, including actor, manager, playwright, publicist and theatre advocate. He displayed an amazing range by convincingly playing parts in every genre from comedy to tragedy, history to farce. From 1747 until his retirement in 1776, he was the

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