Charles Macklin [ Art and Literature ]
… Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice’’, 1785, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1868,0822.5483. Résumé In the history of sociability, Charles Macklin, born Cathal MacLochlainn (1699?–1797) exemplifies the Irish Enlightenment and successful … He journeyed from Donegal to Dublin and London and moved from the stage to the page with a wanderlust for knowledge and sociability. He learned English (he had a library of more than three thousand books) and struggled to lose his Irish … Thomas Kirkman, Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, 2 vols. (London: Printed for Lackington, Allen and Co., 1799). Sociability and the Green Room Murder of Drury Lane Macklin started his acting career playing minor parts in Drury Lane …
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