Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… Allen and Co., 1799). Sociability and the Green Room Murder of Drury Lane Macklin started his acting career playing minor parts in Drury Lane Theatre from 1733 onwards and became more and more involved in the theatrical … actors and Macklin lost his temper, accusing his fellow actor of stealing his wig, an essential prop for the part he was playing. He struck his stick in Thomas Hallam’s eye untowardly piercing his brain. The injury had a fatal outcome. Hallam … or cooperation or companionship with a neighbouring playwright’ (Friel 12). In the 1760s, Macklin returned to Dublin playing at Crow Street, Capel Street, and Smock Alley. His next major play in London, The Man of the World (1781) was …
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