Editing David Garrick (section)

== Legacy ==
[[File:Kauffman-Garrick.jpg|thumb|left|David Garrick's portrait, by [[Angelica Kauffman|Kauffman]]]]

=== An easy, natural manner ===
Perhaps it was Garrick's acting, the most showy of his careers, that brought him the most adulation. Garrick was not a large man, only standing 5'4", and his voice is not described as particularly loud. From his first performance, Garrick departed from the bombastic style that had been popular, choosing instead a more relaxed, naturalistic style that his biographer Alan Kendall states "would probably seem quite normal to us today, but it was new and strange for his day." Certainly, this new style brought acclaim: [[Alexander Pope]] stated, "he was afraid the young man would be spoiled, for he would have no competitor." Garrick quotes [[George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton|George Lyttelton]] as complimenting him by saying, "He told me he never knew what acting was till I appeared." Even [[James Quin]], an actor in the old style remarked, "If this young fellow be right, then we have been all wrong."

While Garrick's praises were being sung by many, there were some detractors. [[Theophilus Cibber]] in his ''Two Dissertations on the Theatres'' of 1756 believed that Garrick's realistic style went too far:
{{quote|his over-fondness for extravagant Attitudes, frequently affected Starts, convulsive Twitchings, Jerkings of the Body, Sprawling of the Fingers, slapping the Breast and Pockets:-A Set of mechanical Motions in constant Use-the Caricatures of gesture suggested by pert vivacity,-his pantomimical Manner of acting every Word in a Sentence, his Unnatural Pauses in the middle of a sentence; his forc'd Conceits; -his wilful Neglect of Harmony, even where the round Period of a well express'd Noble Sentiment demands a graceful Cadence in the delivery.{{sfn|Sechelski|1996|p=380}}
}}

[[File:Zoffany-Garrick in Provoked Wife.jpg|thumb|"David Garrick in [[Vanbrugh]]'s ''[[Provoked Wife]]'', [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Theatre Royal]], Drury Lane" by [[Johann Zoffany]], 1763]]
But Garrick's legacy was perhaps best summarised by the historian [[Rev Nicolas Tindal]] when he said that:

{{quote|The ''deaf'' hear him in his ''action'', and the ''blind'' see him in his ''voice''.{{sfn|Nichols|Bentley|1812|p=554}}}}

=== Memorials ===
* A two-volume biography, ''Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, Esq. : interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries : the whole forming a history of the stage, which includes a period of thirty-six years'', was written by Thomas Davies ({{Circa|1712}}–1785) <ref>[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008881814 Memoirs of the life of David Garrick, Esq. digital edition], available through [[HathiTrust]]</ref>
*[[Garrick Club|The Garrick Club]] in London, named in his honour.
*[[Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare]], built on ''Garrick's Lawn'' in the riverside gardens of his [[Garrick's Villa|Villa]] near [[Hampton Court]], now restored as a memorial to David Garrick and his life in [[Hampton, London]].
*A monument to Garrick in [[Lichfield Cathedral]] bears Johnson's famous comment:
{{quote|I am disappointed by that stroke of death that has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.{{sfn|Carruthers|Ward|1911|pp=475–477}} }}
*A carved stone medallion showing Garrick, a metre or more in diameter, is on display at [[Birmingham Central Library]].
[[File:David Garrick by Robert Edge Pine.jpg|thumb|David Garrick's portrait, by [[Robert Edge Pine]]]]
*Garrick was the first actor to be granted the honour of being buried in [[Westminster Abbey]], in Poets’ Corner, in the ground in front of the monument to [[William Shakespeare]]. Later [[Henry Irving]], the first actor to be knighted, was buried beside Garrick on the same spot. In 1989, [[Laurence Olivier]] was the third to be given that honour. 
*In 1797, a sculptural memorial to Garrick was installed on the west wall of Poet’s Corner featuring the following poem by [[Samuel Jackson Pratt]]:
{{poem quote
|text=To paint fair Nature, by divine command,
Her magic pencil in his glowing hand,
A Shakespeare rose: then, to expand his fame
Wide o’er this breathing world, a Garrick came.
Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew,
The Actor’s genius made them breathe anew;
Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay,
Immortal Garrick call’d them back to day:
And till Eternity with power sublime
Shall mark the mortal hour of hoary Time,
Shakespeare and Garrick like twin-stars shall shine,
And earth irradiate with a beam divine. 
|source=Text of plaque on site of Garrick Theatre, Hereford
}}

[[File:John Zoffany - David Garrick as Jaffier, Susannah Maria Cibber as Belvidera in Venice Preserved, or The Plot Discovered.jpg|thumb|''[[Venice Preserv'd (painting)|Venice Preserv'd]]'' by [[Johan Zoffany]], 1763. Garrick in the role of Jaffier alongside ''[[Susannah Maria Cibber]]'']]
* In 1811, the poet and essayist [[Charles Lamb]] published “On Garrick, and Acting”—better known as “On the Tragedies of Shakespeare: Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation” (1818)—in response to his encounter with the Westminster Abbey Garrick memorial and inscription.{{sfn|Robinson|2023}}
* [[Cedric Hardwicke]] portrayed Garrick in the 1935 British film ''[[Peg of Old Drury]]''.
* A 1937 film called ''[[The Great Garrick]]'', directed by [[James Whale]], is a fictional story of how Garrick's acting skills and ego inspire the actors of the [[Comédie-Française]] to try and teach him a lesson.  [[Brian Aherne]] stars as Garrick.
*In 1969, [[Ian McShane]] played Garrick in an episode of the [[Television in the United Kingdom|British]] [[television series]] ''[[Rogues' Gallery (TV series)|Rogues' Gallery]]''.
*He appears as a character in the plays ''[[David Garrick (play)|David Garrick]]'' (1864) and ''[[Mr Foote's Other Leg (play)|Mr Foote's Other Leg]]'' (2015).
*A School House at [[King Edward VI School, Lichfield]], is named after him.
*The lyrics he penned for "[[Heart of Oak]]" remain, with [[William Boyce (composer)|William Boyce]]'s music, the official March of the [[Royal Navy]].
*Legend has it that he was so engrossed in a performance of Richard III that he was oblivious to a [[bone fracture]], inspiring the theatrical felicitation "[[Break a leg#Richard III theory|Break a leg!]]".{{sfn|Keever|1995}}
*  There was a pub in [[Milton Keynes]] named after him in the Theatre District, open from 2000 and closed in 2016.
* [[The Garrick Inn, Stratford-upon-Avon|The Garrick Inn]], reputedly [[Stratford-upon-Avon]]'s oldest pub, is named after him.
* [[Garrick Bar|The Garrick Bar]], a Belfast pub named after him since 1870.
* [[The Garrick's Head]], an Urmston, Manchester pub named after him since 1830.
* Garrick's Head pub in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], behind the Georgian [[Theatre Royal, Bath|Theatre Royal]], Bath is named after him.
* Five early Lodges of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes were named after Garrick.
* David Garrick appears as an important character in the graphic novel ''La pièce manquante'' ("The Missing Play", 2023) by {{interlanguage link|Jean Harambat|fr}}. The novel stars actress Peg Woffington on a quest to find [[William Shakespeare]]'s missing play ''[[The History of Cardenio]]'', with Garrick being her insistent suitor and sometime opponent, trying to get his hands on the text before she does - but, as revealed at the end, only so that he can gift it to her in an attempt to woo her.<ref>{{Cite book|title=[[La Pièce Manquante]]|last=Harambat|first=Jean|author-link=Jean Harambat|publisher=[[Dargaud]]|date=2023|isbn=978-2205202359|location=France|pages=160}}</ref>

=== Theatre names ===
{{Main|Garrick Theatre (disambiguation)}}
Several theatres have been named after Garrick:
*Two theatres, in London, have been named for him. The first, [[Garrick Theatre (Leman St)]] in [[Whitechapel]] opened in 1831, and closed in 1881. The second, opened in 1889 as the [[Garrick Theatre]], still survives.
*The [[Garrick Theatre, Lichfield|Lichfield Garrick Theatre]] takes its name from David Garrick, as does the Garrick Room, the main function suite in Lichfield's George Hotel.
*Two amateur dramatic theatres in Greater Manchester, the Altrincham Garrick Theatre and the [[Garrick Theatre (Stockport)|Stockport Garrick Theatre]] (1901), also take his name.
*The arts and theatre building at [[Hampton School]] is named after him.
*A [[Garrick Theatre (Guildford)|Community Theatre]] located in Guildford (north of Perth) in Western Australia, is named after Garrick. Established in 1932, the Garrick Theatre Club is the longest continually running amateur theatre in metropolitan Perth.
*A Community Theatre located in Bonavista, Newfoundland, Canada, is named after Garrick.