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Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London (Paperback)
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Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London (Paperback)
Series: Eighteenth Century Worlds, 11
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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 a 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.
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