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Ian McIntyre
Garrick
Hay Festival 2000,
The biographer introduces his portrait of the great eighteenth century Shakespearean actor-manager, friend of Samuel Johnson, Sheridan, Handel, Goldsmith and Gainsborough. Garrick, like Burbage, Kean, Irving and Olivier, revolutionsed his art and changed theatre forever.