OF

THE LIFE

OF

CHARLES MACKLIN, ESQ.

PRINCIPALLY

COMPILED FROM HIS OWN PAPERS AND MEMORANDUMS ;

WHICH CONTAIN

HIS CRITICISMS

ON

AND CHARACTERS AND ANECDOTES

of

BETTERTON, BOOTH, WILKS, CIBBER, GARRICK, BARRY, MOSSOP, SHERIDAN, FOOTE,
QUIN, AND MOST OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES;

Together with his

Valuable Obfervations on the Drama, on the Science of Acting,
and on various other Subjects:

THE WHOLE FORMING

A COMPREHENSIVE BUT SUCCINCT

HISTORY OF THE STAGE;

Which includes a Period of One Hundred Years.

BY JAMES THOMAS KIRKMAN,

OF THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF LINCOLN'S INN.

ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE,

AND ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN MERELY PLAYERS;
THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS AND THEIR ENTRANCES,
AND ONE MAN IN HIS TIME PLAYS MANY PARTS
HIS ACTS BEING SEVEN AGES.

Shakespeare.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. TEMPLE OF THE MUSES,

FINSBURY SQUARE.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

822.9.

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V. 2

Charles Sanders
Bequest
10-3-1927

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME,

CHAP. I

MR. MACKLIN comes from Dublin to London

-engages at Covent-Garden-brings out his True

Born Irishman, under a new title-its reception-Mr.

Macklin addreffes the audience-an account of the

disputes between the patentees of Covent-Garden-

the praise-worthy conduct of Mr. Harris Mifs

Macklin refuses to play Afpafia-Mr. Colman's beha-

viour copy of a letter from Mr. Macklin to Mr.

Colman-feveral curious extracts from Mr. Macklin's

papers, relating to Mifs Macklin, and to the con-

duct of Mr. Colman, as manager-Mr. Macklin's

character of his daughter-he withdraws himself

from Covent-Garden theatre-does not play-Mrs.

Pritchard dies-Mr. O'Brien leaves the stage-

Mr. Macklin's opinion of him-Mrs. Clive retires

from the ftage-her character. Page 1.

CHAP. II.

MR. MACKLIN does not play, except for his

daughter's benefit-his mother dies in the 99th year of

her age-her character-Mr. Powell dies his cha-

VOL. II.