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William Hawkins [1759], Cymbeline. A tragedy, altered from Shakespeare. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By William Hawkins (Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher [etc.], London) [word count] [S30700]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Note return to page 1 William Hawkins was a classicist, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford (where in the 1750s he gave the first ever university lectures on Shakespeare, in Latin); his drastic neo-classical adaptation of CYMBELINE attempts the perversely ingenious feat of making Shakespeare's romance fit the unities of time and place. It achieved seven performances at Covent Garden in 1759, but was thereafter replaced by Garrick's abridgement of Shakespeare's original (published in Bell's edition).
William Hawkins [1759], Cymbeline. A tragedy, altered from Shakespeare. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. By William Hawkins (Printed for James Rivington and James Fletcher [etc.], London) [word count] [S30700]. |
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