OF CHARLES MACKLIN, COMEDIAN, WITH THE DRAMATIC CHARACTERS, MANNERS, ANECDOTES, &c. OF THE AGE IN WHICH HE LIVED: FORMING An History of the Stage during almost the Whole of the last Century. AND A Chronological List of all the Parts played by him. The Players will shew all; For they are the abstract, and brief chronicles of the time. SHAKESPEARE. William Cook LONDON: PRINTED FOR JAMES ASPERNE, At the Bible, Crown, and Constitution, Cornhill; Thomas Maiden, Sherbourn-Lane. 1804. 35771 INTRODUCTION. PUBLIC curiosity, almost ever since the first establishment of a Theatre in this country, has demanded some account of the lives and characters of its eminent professors. Men, who have been so much "the brief abstract and chronicles of the times," acquire popular favour, both from the entertainment and utility they afford; for, as they are generally not inattentive observers of mankind, and represent them under all their several designations, their own characters are supposed to bear some distinguished impression. Our affections often keep pace with our curiosity; and the person who has improved and amused us for a great number of years, we respect whilst living, and remember with a melancholy pleasure when he is no more. Upon this principle it is we introduce to the public, Memoirs of the late Charles Macklin, and 789991 |