Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… literary figures and royalty. He was a close friend of David Garrick, Edmund Burke and Henry Fielding, was celebrated by Alexander Pope and even admired by royalty, in particular King George II (1683-1760) . In his forties he converted to Protestantism … Charles Macklin: An Actor’s Life (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1960). […] attended the rendezvous and there found Pope, and a select party, who complimented him very highly on the part of Shylock, and questioned him about many little …
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