By J. C. Trewin
Besides being a superb actor and the buddy and affiliate of Dickens, Bulwer Lytton, Browning, and many of the valuable figures within the drama and literature of his time, William Charles Macready (1793-1873) used to be a compulsive diarist. His magazine of twenty-one years, in the course of so much of which he was once on the head of the English level, is a candid and soaking up self-revelation.
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My observation upon him was not hastily pronounced. My impression was that, possessed of natural requisites in no ordinary degree, he might, under careful discipline, confidently look forward to eminence in his profession. If he would give himself up to a severe study of his art, and improve himself by the practice he could obtain before the audiences of the principal theatres in Great Britain, those of Edinburgh, Liverpool, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, &c. (then good dramatic schools), he might make himself a first-rate actor.
I have begun more seriously this month to apply to the study of my profession, impelled by the necessity which the present state of the drama creates. I do not feel that I have the talent to recall attention to an art from which amusement cannot be drawn but by an exertion of the 12 MACREADY AND BUNN (1832-1836) intellect. The agc is too indolent in part, and in part too highly cultivated. But while I see the desperate condition to which, at this latc period of my life, my profession is reduced, I am not thereby inclined to let my spirits sink nnder the disheartening prospect.
Birth of a son. [William Charles, second child and eldest son; died in Ceylon, 26 November I87I. } August 8. An idle day, which in duty to myself and my dear children must not be. Septcmber 22. Drury Lane again. September 25. Read of Walter Scott's death on Friday last. • Walked with Mr Cooper to my chambers, 61, Lincoln's Inn Fields. Signed agreement, £2 5s per week. Came home by Reeves' coach outside.... } September 28. Rehearsed Pizarro. News of robbery of geese at Elstree. Dined on sausage, brown bread, and soda-water.
