The Journal of William Charles Macready, 1832-1851J. C. Trewin Besides being a great actor and the friend and associate of Dickens, Bulwer Lytton, Browning, and most of the principal figures in the drama and literature of his time, William Charles Macready (1793-1873) was a compulsive diarist. His journal of twenty-one years, during most of which he was at the head of the English stage, is a candid and absorbing self-revelation. |
Contents
I Macready and Bunn 18321836 | 1 |
II The Leader 18371840 | 87 |
III Drury Lane 18411843 | 167 |
IV Home and Abroad 18431851 | 201 |
Epilogue 18521873 | 299 |
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