The center stage of London theatrical life was home to George Colman the Elder, and he shared it with such distinguished colleagues as Samuel Foote, David Garrick, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan, acting as dramaturge and manager for the Drury Lane...

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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.

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.

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.