Machine generated contents note: Love a la Mode in Performance: A Dialogue / 13. Macklin's Look / Nicholas Johnson. 2. Macklin's Books / Paul Goring -- 3. Macklin in the Theatre, the Courts, and the News / Manushag Powell -- 4. `Strong Case': Macklin and the Law / David Worrall -- 5. Macklin and the Novel / Res Ballaster -- Theatre -- 6. Macklin as Theatre Manager / Matthew Kinservik -- 7. Macklin and Song / Ian Newman -- 8. Ethnic Jokes and Polite Language: Soft Othering and Macklin's British Comedies / Michael Brown -- 9. Macklin and Censorship / David O'Shaughnessy -- Sociability -- 10. Macklin's Coffeehouse: Public Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London / Markman Ellis -- 11. Macklin's Talking `Wrongheads': The British Inquisition and the Public Sphere / Helen Burke -- Restaging Macklin -- 12. Restaging Macklin / Nicholas Johnson -- 13. Love a la Mode in Performance: A Dialogue / Nicholas Johnson.
Summary:
Charles Macklin (1699?-1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 - no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of George I to the Regency Crisis of 1788. He is credited alongside Garrick with the development of the natural school of acting and gave a famous performance of Shylock that gave George II nightmares. As a dramatist, he wrote one of the great comic pieces of the mid-century (Love a la Mode, 1759), as well as the only play of the century to be twice refused a performance licence (The Man of the World, 1781). He opened an experimental coffeehouse in Covent Garden, he advocated energetically for actors' rights and copyright reform for dramatists, and he successfully sued theatre rioters. In short, he had an astonishingly varied career. 0With essays by leading experts on eighteenth-century culture, this volume provides a sustained critical examination of his career, illuminating many aspects of eighteenth-century theatrical culture and of the European Enlightenment, and explores the scholarly benefit - and thrill - of restaging Macklin's work in the twenty-first century.
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