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  William Charles Macready - LoveToKnow 1911
WILLIAM CHARLES MACREADY (1793-1873), English actor, was born in London on the 3rd of March 1793, and educated at Rugby.
Macready took leave of the stage in a farewell performance of Macbeth at Drury Lane on the 26th of February 1851.
Macready's performances always displayed fine artistic perceptions developed to a high degree of perfection by very comprehensive culture, and even his least successful personations had the interest resulting from thorough intellectual study.
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 AllRefer.com - William Charles Macready (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia
With his portrayal of Richard III at Covent Garden in 1819, Macready established himself as a tragedian of the first rank and the only rival to Edmund Kean.
In 1849, on his last visit to the United States, the Astor Place riot occurred, in which several people were killed, brought on by his fierce rivalry with Edwin Forrest.
Macready sought to uphold the standards of fine drama in a period of decline, and he pointed the way toward the drawing-room realism of the 19th cent.
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 William Macready
Educated at Rugby, it was William’s intention to go up to Oxford to study law, but in 1809 when he was 15 years old he had to leave school because of his father’s sudden bankruptcy and imprisonment for debt.
In 1816, with John Philip Kemble newly retired and Edmund Kean reigning supreme at Drury Lane, Macready was hired as a new attraction at Covent Garden.
Charlotte Crampton taught young Haworth all of William Macready’s "stage business." In the centuries before the advent of the stage director, the staging of classical roles was handed down in an apostolic line from actor to actor.
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 William Charles Macready
NGLISH actor William Charles Macready was born in London on the 3rd of March 1793, and educated at Rugby.
On the 10th of June 1838 he gave he gave a memorable performance of Henry V, for which Stanfield prepared sketches, and the mounting was superintended by Bulwer, Dickens, Forster, Maclise, W.J. Fox and other friends.
With the exception of a voice of good compass and capable of very varied expression, Macready had no special physical gifts for acting, but the defects of his face and figure cannot be said to have materially affected his success.
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 William Charles Macready - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He showed his capacity for the highest tragedy when he played Richard III at Covent Garden on October 25, 1819.
In 1826 he completed a successful engagement in the United States, and in 1828 his performances met with a very flattering reception in Paris.
Macready's son was General Sir Nevil Macready, a distinguished British Army officer.
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