Autograph Papers of Charles Macklin
Author | : Charles Macklin |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1754 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:319883382 |
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Download or read book Autograph Papers of Charles Macklin written by Charles Macklin and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some pages deleted. Miscellaneous notes on various subjects including the venality of the stage, much of the invective directed against Garrick [1754?-1760?]; an excerpt from Macklin's defense in his suit [against Colman, 1774?], written on the back of poems (all entitled Impromptu on seeing Mr. Macklin in Macbeth) about Macklin copied from the St. James's Chronicle, October 26, 1773; a draft of a bill introduced in the Court of Chancery in Ireland in Macklin v. Robert Owenson, manager of the City Theatre, Fishamble St., Dublin, February 26, 1785, concerning Owenson's production of Love a la mode without Macklin's permission. Memoranda and anecdotes of Macklin, 1775-1776, with a note by Charles Farley, and another by D[rinkwater] Meadows, 1859, that this was bought at Isaac Reed's sale, presumably by Field; notes on the history of England and of the theatre since 1660, many concerning Garrick and Macklin, ca. 1785; notes for Macklin's play "Kill or be killed," written on the blank spaces of a letter to Macklin from George Mattocks, September 17, [1774?], inviting him to play in Liverpool; and a ticket for [Covent Garden], March 22, 1787.