Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick: Plays, Painting and Performance

A study of theatrical portraiture through the work of William Hogarth and David Garrick.

In 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg remarked, ‘What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth, and Garrick! There is something similar in the genius of all three.’ Two-and-a-half centuries on, Robin Simon’s highly original and illuminating book takes up the challenge.

William Hogarth (1697-1764) and David Garrick (1717-79) closely associated themselves with Shakespeare, embodying a relationship be...