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Charles Macklin
Standard Name: Macklin, Charles
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Emily Frederick Clark | EFC
's grandfather, who committed public suicide by shooting himself in the west porch of Westminster Abbey on 1 February 1797, when he was a little past seventy, was Colonel Frederick or Frederic (called by... |
| Occupation | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Back in England, she tried the first earning resource of the non-respectable woman: acting. Places where she performed included Farnham in Surrey and Chester (at a greater distance from London), and Warrington in Lancashire... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Gooch must have spent heavily on advertising. From 5 April until 5 May front-page advertisements for her book appeared in the London Star and other papers. They took up an unusual number of column-inches, since... |
| Reception | Sarah Gardner | A considerable debate developed about the play's alleged plagiarism from various sources: Macklin
's Love-a-la-Mode, Foote
's The Author, and Colman's own The Deuce is in Him. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Holford | A poem prefacing Wallace addresses a friend of Holford named Miss Gertrude Louisa Allen
(and includes a tribute to King George
the Good, his people's friend). A prose preface asserts the writer's English patriotism to... |
Timeline
10 July 1764
A new play, The True-born Scotsman, a caricature of Scottishness by the Irishman Charles Macklin
, opened at Smock Alley Theatre
(or the Theatre Royal) in Dublin.