Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… Image After Ramberg, ‘Illustration to Bell’s Shakespeare; portrait of the actor Charles Macklin in character as Shylock in Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’’, 1785, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1868,0822.5483. Résumé In the … 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 the sociable British Enlightenment. … library is digitized and searchable online: https://www.librarything.fr/catalog/CharlesMacklin&tag=Law. Macklin as Shylock: Acting and Socializing Before he was thirty years of age, his reputation as an outstanding actor grew and he …
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