Charles Macklin and the theatres of London / edited by Ian Newman and David O'Shaughnessy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newman, Ian David, 1976- editor.

O'Shaughnessy, David, 1976- editor.

Liverpool University Press, publisher.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Eighteenth-century worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macklin, Charles, approximately 1697-1797.

Macklin, Charles.

Theater--England--London.

Theater.

Dramatists, Irish.

Actors.

England--London.

Theater--History--18th century.

History.

Actors--Ireland.

Dramatists, Irish--18th century.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

xviii, 321 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2022.

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. 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781800855984

1800855982

9781800856912

1800856911

OCLC:

1240771913