Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… legal knowledge to win his trials, henceforth highlighting the undeniable relationship between the eighteenth-century courtroom and the theatre. 2 . See on Macklin’s struggle to lose his Irish brogue: James Thomas Kirkman, Memoirs of the … lecture hall and most contentiously, the newspapers’ (Straub 402). Macklin and Legal Circles, from the Stage to the Courtroom Macklin was on stage and off stage, transforming the stage into a courtroom and the courtroom into a stage. The most striking example is the Macbeth episode in Covent Garden Theatre. On …
Anglo-Irishness | Charity | Debate | Enlightenment | Ireland | Theatre
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