Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq
Author : James Thomas Kirkman
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 1799
Category : Actors
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Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq.
Author : James Thomas Kirkman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Theater
ISBN : 1108064663
Book Description
Drawing on his own papers and first published in 1799, this two-volume account traces the colourful life of the actor and playwright Charles Macklin (c.1699-1797). His long career serves as the focal point in a history of the eighteenth-century theatre and its most celebrated performers. Hailed for his enduring interpretation of Shakespeare's Shylock, a role he played for some fifty years, Macklin has been credited with the theatre's move towards realism. His life was just as dramatic offstage, marked as it was by a series of controversies and fierce rivalries. In 1735 he was convicted of the manslaughter of a fellow actor in a quarrel over a wig, and in 1775 he successfully pressed charges of conspiracy against theatregoers who had rioted during his performances. Volume 1 covers Macklin's childhood and early career, including his trial for the killing of Thomas Hallam.
Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin
Author : James Thomas Kirkman
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1799
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Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq.
Author : James Thomas Kirkman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Theater
ISBN : 1108064671
Book Description
Drawing on his own papers and first published in 1799, this two-volume account traces the colourful life of the actor and playwright Charles Macklin (c.1699-1797). His long career serves as the focal point in a history of the eighteenth-century theatre and its most celebrated performers. Hailed for his enduring interpretation of Shakespeare's Shylock, a role he played for some fifty years, Macklin has been credited with the theatre's move towards realism. His life was just as dramatic offstage, marked as it was by a series of controversies and fierce rivalries. In 1735 he was convicted of the manslaughter of a fellow actor in a quarrel over a wig, and in 1775 he successfully pressed charges of conspiracy against theatregoers who had rioted during his performances. Volume 2 covers the latter part of Macklin's career up to his death. Also included is a selection of letters written to his son.
Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq
Author : James Thomas Kirkman
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1799
Category : Actors
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Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq
Author : James Thomas Kirkman
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 1799
Category : Actors
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Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq
Author : James Thomas Kirkman
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : pages
File Size : 38,42 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
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ISBN : 9781357895129
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Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq
Author : James Thomas Kirkman
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 1799
Category : Actors
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Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss
Author : Emily Hodgson Anderson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2020-03-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0472902369
Book Description
How do we recapture, or hold on to, the live performances we most love, and the talented artists and performers we most revere? Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss tells the story of how 18th-century actors, novelists, and artists, key among them David Garrick, struggled with these questions through their reenactments of Shakespearean plays. For these artists, the resurgence of Shakespeare, a playwright whose works just decades earlier had nearly been erased, represented their own chance for eternal life. Despite the ephemeral nature of performance, Garrick and company would find a way to make Shakespeare, and through him the actor, rise again. In chapters featuring Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, and The Merchant of Venice, Emily Hodgson Anderson illuminates how Garrick’s performances of Shakespeare came to offer his contemporaries an alternative and even an antidote to the commemoration associated with the monument, the portrait, and the printed text. The first account to read 18th-century visual and textual references to Shakespeare alongside the performance history of his plays, this innovative study sheds new light on how we experience performance, and why we gravitate toward an art, and artists, we know will disappear.
What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare
Author : Andrew McConnell Stott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0393248666
Book Description
Winner of the 2019 Marfield Prize for Outstanding Writing About the Arts The remarkable, ridiculous, rain-soaked story of Shakespeare’s Jubilee: the event that established William Shakespeare as the greatest writer of all time. In September 1769, three thousand people descended on Stratford-upon-Avon to celebrate the artistic legacy of the town’s most famous son, William Shakespeare. Attendees included the rich and powerful, the fashionable and the curious, eligible ladies and fortune hunters, and a horde of journalists and profiteers. For three days, they paraded through garlanded streets, listened to songs and oratorios, and enjoyed masked balls. It was a unique cultural moment—a coronation elevating Shakespeare to the throne of genius. Except it was a disaster. The poorly planned Jubilee imposed an army of Londoners on a backwater hamlet peopled by hostile and superstitious locals, unable and unwilling to meet their demands. Even nature refused to behave. Rain fell in sheets, flooding tents and dampening fireworks, and threatening to wash the whole town away. Told from the dual perspectives of David Garrick, who masterminded the Jubilee, and James Boswell, who attended it, What Blest Genius? is rich with humor, gossip, and theatrical intrigue. Recounting the absurd and chaotic glory of those three days in September, Andrew McConnell Stott illuminates the circumstances in which William Shakespeare became a transcendent global icon.
