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Book Review: David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity by Leslie Ritchie

by Annette Rubery | Jan 20, 2022 | Book review, Theatre History

Dr Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds, Wikimedia Commons. Celebrity was still a relatively new concept in the eighteenth century. Often seen as an ignoble version of ‘fame’ or ‘glory’, celebrity has its roots in Grub Street, where it flourished in the rich soil of...

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