The Newspaper "Trial" of Charles Macklin's Macbeth and the Theatre as Juridical Public Sphere.
Actor Charles Macklin's 1773 production of Shakespeare's Macbeth for Covent Garden Theatre manager George Colman sparked a newspaper controversy over the actor's appeal to his audience for the right to perform, even when that performance was not universally well received. Macklin staged a dramatic d...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 27; no. 3/4; pp. 395 - 419 |
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