Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… legal knowledge to win his trials, henceforth highlighting the undeniable relationship between the eighteenth-century courtroom and the theatre. 2 . See on Macklin’s struggle to lose his Irish brogue: James Thomas Kirkman, Memoirs of the … of his pioneering and innovative acting. In a striking realistic way, he played Touchtone, Duke Frederick’s jester, the court fool in As You Like It and Malvolio, Steward to Lady Olivia in Twelfth Night in 1741. He is also said to have … London and proprietors of the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin. Macklin successfully defended his ownership in the Chancery Courts and fought his whole life to assert the copyright to his plays. For Straub, Macklin ‘had a reputation for claiming …
Anglo-Irishness | Charity | Debate | Enlightenment | Ireland | Theatre
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