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… succeeds in socializing as far as he refers to his civitas , his societas , his own civilized world. He finds within himself the elements of divine natural law, i.e., moral values that, ab origine , range from religious items to self-respect … Aryans, secularists and Freemasons under the common label of ‘magic’ to indicate ‘a new invention [that] has gain’d upon Mankind by a general Infatuation’, 6  the precise symbolic edifice elaborated in  Robinson Crusoe  appears   as a product … may have been completely unaware of having evoked something more than an aesthetic creation. Still, Crusoe is the  self-made man  who builds himself by struggling against nature; he is not constrained by authorities, tenets, social bonds, or …

… Irish actor enhanced on the British stage as well as an acknowledged playwright. His pioneering and acclaimed performance in The Merchant of Venice as Shylock  at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , hastened his entry and participation in … his plays. Charles Macklin was the embodiment of the secret and widespread human desire among actors to metamorphose oneself, to utterly change one’s ego, name, language, faith, physical appearance, social circles and loyalties. His attempt … century Ireland’. 11   The True Born Irishman was for Friel a considerable piece of work from an almost self-made man and gave him ‘a kind of comhar or cooperation or companionship with a neighbouring playwright’ (Friel 12). In …