TY  - GEN
T1  - Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London.
T2  - Eighteenth-Century Worlds Ser.
A1  - Newman, Ian
A2  - O'Shaughnessy, David
LA  - English
PP  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1303085602
AB  - 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, t...
OP  - 352
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - PR3543.M3
SN  - 1800855605
SN  - 9781800855601
SN  - 9781800855984
KW  - Macklin, Charles, : approximately 1697-1797
KW  - Theater : England : London : 18th century.
KW  - Actors : Ireland.
KW  - Dramatists, Irish : 18th century.
KW  - Théâtre : Angleterre : Londres : 18e siècle.
KW  - Acteurs : Irlande.
KW  - Dramaturges irlandais : 18e siècle.
KW  - Actors
KW  - Dramatists, Irish
KW  - Theater
KW  - England : London
KW  - Ireland
KW  - 1700-1799
ER  -