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George Colman the Elder: Title page of Colman's Terence, 1765 |
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 George Colman the Elder Information
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 George Colman (April, 1732 - 14 August 1794) was an English dramatist and essayist, usually called "the Elder", and sometimes "George the First", to distinguish him from his son, George Colman the Younger. He was born in Florence, where his father was...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Richard Bevis
6,036 words, approx. 20 pages
 In the following excerpt, Bevis reviews Colman's comedic plays, concluding that while their literary merit is uneven, they are among the few dramas of the period to discuss important social questions.
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Critical Essay by Arthur John Harris
5,357 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Harris argues that it was Colman, not David Garrick as has most often been assumed, who was primarily responsible for the restoration of Shakespeare's King Lear in the mid-eighteenth century.
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Critical Essay by George Winchester Stone, Jr.
4,641 words, approx. 16 pages
In the following excerpt, Stone claims that Colman was responsible for many of the alterations in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream that caused the play he produced with David Garrick in 1763 to fail with audiences and critics.
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