Download or read book Autograph Letters Signed from David Garrick, the Adelphi, to George Steevens, Hampstead written by and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns Steevens' research for the proposed edition of Shakespeare's works by himself and Johnson. Several refer to Steevens' borrowing of Garrick's collection of old plays and their correspondence with contemporary commentators, e.g. a Mr. Swan of York, and Brome a "descendant of the famous author Alexander Brome; Shakespeare gave the first edition of Surrey's Poems to one of his ancestors living in Warwickshire; Brome sent to me and I lent it to Dr. Percy," (W.a.180). In W.a.186 he asks if he has ever thought of any play unrevived in Shakespeare that would bring credit to "us" well decorated and carefully got up? - Richard II? He had revived Anthony and Cleopatra, but he had grown tired and given it up ...