Synopses & Reviews
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.
Review
No one could undertake the re-editing and compression of the diaries with more authority and understanding than Mr. Trewin
Mr. Trewins concise interpolations provide an authentic background to the diarists entries and so enable us to take them in our stride as an absorbing narrative.”Times Literary Supplement
Review
Judged by this admirable abridgement, Macreadys journal ranks high, both as an early Victorian peep show and as the strangely moving portrait of an unamiable but far from unlovable man.”The Observer
Synopsis
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.