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Carlyle's influence on Shakespeare.(Thomas Carlyle)

Rope-walking monkeys, riding-masters chased by clowns, an "Aquatic Theatre" flooded with water from the nearby New River in order to stage sensational naval melodramas--these were the entertainments dominating the London theatrical scene as Thomas Carlyle sat down in November of 1837 to assess W. C. Macready's new management of Covent Garden. Referring to Macready as "a classical man wishing to banish the wild beasts" of the less sophisticated performances in London, Carlyle goes on to defend the actor-manager's struggle to "gather 'Intellect' round him" in order to return the playhouse to Shakespeare and its former glory (Collected Letters 9: 343). Carlyle also admits that he ...

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