Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… he was entitled to (accepting only the amount he spent for his legal fees) and the Judge, Lord Mansfield henceforth stated that ‘Mr Macklin, though an excellent player, had never acted his part so well as on that day’ (Straub 415). Later … Vertigo compressing Macklin’s three acts into one and reducing the number of characters from fourteen to five. Friel stated that the missing nine characters were used by Macklin ‘as contemporary stereotypes who make leisurely and amusing …
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