Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… where, according to Kirkman, his desire for self-improvement started (Kirkman 44-45) and who had previously escaped poverty in Donegal to move from Dublin to London. He created such a mesmeric, realistic and convincing character that it … reports. His public image was tainted by the past he had fought to erase, his Irishness associated in England with poverty, criminal violence (the murder of Thomas Hallam) and a tendency to squabbles whereas Garrick, using more … in the part, floundering his lines, he left the stage forever and spent the last years of his life in poor health and poverty-stricken. Macklin’s astonishing and lasting success across the London Georgian theatres and in Dublin theatres, …
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