Letter from Charles Macklin to David Garrick
Author: Charles Macklin
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Published: 1763
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Published: 1775
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSends a subpoena to compel Garrick's attendance and evidence at Westminster Hall the following day.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn response to "strange & malignant falshoods" published against his daughter, Maria Macklin, Macklin seeks to defend "the propriety of her conduct respecting the managers of Covent-garden, and of Mr. Hoole and his tragedy." Asks Garrick a series of questions regarding Garrick's knowledge of Miss Macklin's reading the part of Aspasia in John Hoole's Cyrus, her contracts, etc. Address given as "Tavistock Row."
Author: Henry Meredyth
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Published: 1757
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Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780809306251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life of this actor, manager, playwright, and eighteenth-century gentleman is here refracted through the volurninous correspondence and analyses of roles, plays, and performances in this, no doubt final, biography of David Garrick. As the direct result of modern scholarship accessible only since the 1960s, it is now possible to appraise fully the life of this remarkable person who was born in Lichfield 19February 1717, a childhood friend of Samuel Johnson, who became the greatest English theatrical luminary who ever lived, and who when he died 20 January 1779was mourned by the nation and eulogized by Dr. Johnson as one whose death "eclipsed the gaiety of nations." For twenty-nine years (1747-1776) Garrick managed Drury Lane theatre, caring passionately for its well-being. His own acting set the pace for the performances, his discipline carried it on, and his theatrical innovations attracted the audiences on which the lives, hopes, and families of some 140actors, actresses, singers, dancers, and others depended. In addition, he wrote, adapted, or altered some 49 plays and wrote nearly 100 prologues. What emerges from this big, new critical biography is a fully drawn portrait of an eighteenth-century gentleman, with a wide range of acquaintances, elegant socially, morally, and personally, and an engaging conversationalist with and respecter of women of mark and with his closest friends. He was also, as the evidence now shows, the solid link with his own age and the great dramatic artists of the past, from the Restoration playwrights to Massinger, Jonson, Shakespeare, and early English dramatists.
Author: Ian Newman
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2022-02-15
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1800855605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles 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.
Author: Paul Goring
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9784902454338
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Published: 1832
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