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Charles Macklin Esg/.”~

Published as the Act directs May 1,1799, by Lackington, Allen & Co

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.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Shakespeare.

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

FINSBURY SQUARE,

1799.

Cntered at Stationers' Hall.