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Charles Macklin and the theatres of London / edited by Ian Newman and David O'Shaughnessy [electronic resource]

Contributor(s): Newman, I. (Ian) [editor] | O'Shaughnessy, D. (David) [editor].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, (Oxford University Press) 2022Description: e-book contains 344pages.ISBN: 9781800853515.Subject(s): Literary Studies (Plays and Playwrights) | English DramaDDC classification: 822.6 Online resources: https://academic.oup.com/book/44373 Click here
Contents:
Front Matter Illustrations Plates Tables Abbreviations Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Macklin and the Performance of Enlightenment Ian Newman and David O’Shaughnessy View chapter Representing Macklin David Francis Taylor Expand1 Macklin’s Look David Francis Taylor View chapter Expand2 Macklin’s Books Paul Goring View chapter Expand3 Macklin in the Theatre, the Courts, and the News Manushag Powell View chapter Expand4 ‘Strong Case’: Macklin and the Law David Worrall View chapter Expand5 Macklin and the Novel Ros Ballaster View chapter Theatre David Francis Taylor Expand6 Macklin as Theatre Manager Matthew Kinservik View chapter Expand7 Macklin and Song Ian Newman View chapter Expand8 Ethnic Jokes and Polite Language: Soft Othering and Macklin’s British Comedies Michael Brown View chapter Expand9 Macklin and Censorship David O’Shaughnessy View chapter Sociability David Francis Taylor Expand10 Macklin’s Coffeehouse: Public Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London Markman Ellis View chapter Expand11 Macklin’s Talking ‘Wrongheads’: The British Inquisition and the Public Sphere Helen Burke View chapter Restaging Macklin David Francis Taylor View part front matter Expand12 Restaging Macklin Nicholas Johnson View chapter 13 Love à la Mode in Performance A Dialogue Colm Summers and Nicholas Johnson View chapter End Matter Bibliography Index
Abstract: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the life and career of Charles Macklin (1699?-1797), one of the most important figures in the history of Covent Garden and Drury Lane. The chapters discuss Macklin's acting performances, dramatic writings, comedy, legal activities, theatre management, commercial ventures, and his consequent presence in the print and visual culture of the period. The authors examine Macklin's many activities through the seven decades of his London career through the prism of his Irish ethnicity, arguing that his sociability and multi-faceted activities offer a model of performative Enlightenment that had an understated yet sustained impact on Georgian London.
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Includes bibliography and index

Front Matter
Illustrations
Plates
Tables
Abbreviations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Macklin and the Performance of Enlightenment
Ian Newman and David O’Shaughnessy
View chapter
Representing Macklin
David Francis Taylor
Expand1 Macklin’s Look
David Francis Taylor
View chapter
Expand2 Macklin’s Books
Paul Goring
View chapter
Expand3 Macklin in the Theatre, the Courts, and the News
Manushag Powell
View chapter
Expand4 ‘Strong Case’: Macklin and the Law
David Worrall
View chapter
Expand5 Macklin and the Novel
Ros Ballaster
View chapter
Theatre
David Francis Taylor
Expand6 Macklin as Theatre Manager
Matthew Kinservik
View chapter
Expand7 Macklin and Song
Ian Newman
View chapter
Expand8 Ethnic Jokes and Polite Language: Soft Othering and Macklin’s British Comedies
Michael Brown
View chapter
Expand9 Macklin and Censorship
David O’Shaughnessy
View chapter
Sociability
David Francis Taylor
Expand10 Macklin’s Coffeehouse: Public Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London
Markman Ellis
View chapter
Expand11 Macklin’s Talking ‘Wrongheads’: The British Inquisition and the Public Sphere
Helen Burke
View chapter
Restaging Macklin
David Francis Taylor
View part front matter
Expand12 Restaging Macklin
Nicholas Johnson
View chapter
13 Love à la Mode in Performance A Dialogue
Colm Summers and Nicholas Johnson
View chapter
End Matter
Bibliography
Index

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the life and career of Charles Macklin (1699?-1797), one of the most important figures in the history of Covent Garden and Drury Lane. The chapters discuss Macklin's acting performances, dramatic writings, comedy, legal activities, theatre management, commercial ventures, and his consequent presence in the print and visual culture of the period. The authors examine Macklin's many activities through the seven decades of his London career through the prism of his Irish ethnicity, arguing that his sociability and multi-faceted activities offer a model of performative Enlightenment that had an understated yet sustained impact on Georgian London.

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