Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… inaccessible to a former Irish servant at Trinity College Dublin where, according to Kirkman, his desire for self-improvement started (Kirkman 44-45) and who had previously escaped poverty in Donegal to move from Dublin to London. He … of Venice in 1741 and in 1747, The Tempest and Love’s Labour’s Lost) 8 in Drury Lane . It led to the development and improvement of his pioneering and innovative acting. In a striking realistic way, he played Touchtone, Duke Frederick’s … societies while overcoming social and ethnic prejudices, show how eighteenth-century sociability and a desire for self-improvement could bring fame and fortune to a Donegal Gaeltacht-born Irishman. Image Legend Corner, after J. C. Lochée, …
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