Author: William CookPublisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Comedian
Author: William CookCharles Macklin
Author: Sir Edward Abbott ParryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
Author: Ian NewmanPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800855605
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love à la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors’ rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit – and thrill – of restaging Macklin’s work in the twenty-first century.
Memoirs of Charles Macklin, Comedian
Author: Charles MacklinPublisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin
Author: Charles MacklinMemoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq
Author: James Thomas KirkmanPublisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq.
Author: James Thomas KirkmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108064663
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Drawing on his own papers and first published in 1799, this two-volume account traces the colourful life of the actor and playwright Charles Macklin (c.1699-1797). His long career serves as the focal point in a history of the eighteenth-century theatre and its most celebrated performers. Hailed for his enduring interpretation of Shakespeare's Shylock, a role he played for some fifty years, Macklin has been credited with the theatre's move towards realism. His life was just as dramatic offstage, marked as it was by a series of controversies and fierce rivalries. In 1735 he was convicted of the manslaughter of a fellow actor in a quarrel over a wig, and in 1775 he successfully pressed charges of conspiracy against theatregoers who had rioted during his performances. Volume 1 covers Macklin's childhood and early career, including his trial for the killing of Thomas Hallam.
Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, 1
Author: James Thomas KirkmanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, 2
Author: James Thomas KirkmanPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 476
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