Note 1 — Paſquin Turn’d Drawcanſir
Reading edition
The author of this introduction is indebted to the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, both for a research Fellowship in the summer of 1963 and for permission to reproduce this Macklin play as well as two others by the same author, A WILL AND NO WILL, OR A BONE FOR THE LAWYERS (Larpent 58) and THE NEW PLAY CRITICIS’D, OR THE PLAGUE OF ENVY (Larpent 64).
2. George W. Stone, The London Stage, Part 4, I, cxlv.
3. Dougald MacMillan, “Censorship in the Case of Macklin’s The Man of the World,” Huntington Library Quarterly, No. 10 (1936), pp. 79-101.
4. W. Matthews, “The Piracies of Macklin’s Love-a-la Mode,” Review of English Studies, X (1934), 311-18.
5. James T. Kirkman, Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin, Esq. (1799), II, 33. Kirkman quotes Macklin’s letters both to his solicitor and to James Whitley of Leicester to stop all such pirated performances (II, 37-41).
6. John Rich’s application to the Licenser indicates that “Mr. Macklin designs to have [the play] performed at his Benefit Night....”