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- Title
Post-Restoration Shylocks Prior to Macklin.
- Authors
Coleman, William S. E.
- Abstract
After the closing of the London theatres in 1642, William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice waited almost one hundred years before it was revived in an acting version approximating the original script. Charles Macklin was instrumental in bringing an unaltered, but somewhat cut, version to the Drury Lane stage on February 14, 1741. Though no contemporary account of Macklin's first performances as Shylock exists, later biographers and critics state that he performed the part in a serious, almost tragic, manner for the first time since the Interregnum.
- Publication
Theatre Survey, 1967, Vol 8, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
0040-5574
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0040557400007122