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David Garrick's Wigless Celebrity

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Ruth Scobie's bite-sized talk on a portrait of David Garrick by Johan Zoffany
Dr Ruth Scobie looks at a portrait by Johan Zoffany of the eighteenth-century actor David Garrick, and asks what the picture's notorious wiglessness has to do with the actor's control of his extraordinary contemporary celebrity, in a TORCH Bite-Sized Talk at the Ashmolean Museum's Live Friday: Framed! event.

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
People
Ruth Scobie
Keywords
theatre
portrait
celebrity
David Garrick
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 07/06/2016
Duration: 00:12:53

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