Additions to Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Deam by David Garrick Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm black waistcoat

black waistcoat

This was still a time when Britain was wary about allowing any ritual in the Anglican Church that would smack of Catholicism

wearing a black coat

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Additions to Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Deam by David Garrick Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm black waistcoatAdditions to the comic part of Shakespeare's A Midsummers Night's Deam in David Garrick's handwriting, 18th century, (1840). Additions made by by the actor David Garrick (1717 1779) to William Shakespeare's play A Midsummers Night's Deam, written in the 1590s. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).