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• Title:Charles Macklin and the theatres of London / edited by Ian Newman and David O'Shaughnessy.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Newman, Ian David, 1976- editor.
  O'Shaughnessy, David, 1976- editor.
  
• Published/Created:Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.
  ©2022
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR3543.M3 Z555 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Macklin, Charles, approximately 1697-1797.
  Theater--England--London.
  Theater--History--18th century.
  Actors--Ireland.
  Dramatists, Irish--18th century.
  
• Description:xviii, 321 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Eighteenth-century worlds.
  
• Summary: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. 0With 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781800855984 hardcover
  1800855982 hardcover
  9781800856912 paperback
  1800856911 paperback
  9781800853515 electronic book
  9781800855601 electronic book
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Representing Macklin
  1. Macklin's Look / David Francis Taylor
  2. Macklin's Books / Paul Goring
  3. Macklin in the Theatre, the Courts, and the News / Manushag Powell
  4. `Strong Case': Macklin and the Law / David Worrall
  5. Macklin and the Novel / Res Ballaster
  Theatre
  6. Macklin as Theatre Manager / Matthew Kinservik
  7. Macklin and Song / Ian Newman
  8. Ethnic Jokes and Polite Language: Soft Othering and Macklin's British Comedies / Michael Brown
  9. Macklin and Censorship / David O'Shaughnessy
  Sociability
  10. Macklin's Coffeehouse: Public Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London / Markman Ellis
  11. Macklin's Talking `Wrongheads': The British Inquisition and the Public Sphere / Helen Burke
  Restaging Macklin
  12. Restaging Macklin / Nicholas Johnson
  13. Love a la Mode in Performance: A Dialogue / Nicholas Johnson.