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Macklin’s Talking ‘Wrongheads’
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This chapter discusses the genesis and development of Charles Macklin’s British Inquisition (1754-55), as well as the opposition which it encountered. The Inquisition was a product, in part, of the debating society movement of the eighteenth century; it was Macklin’s attempt to emulate the success of John Henley’s Oratory and the Robin Hood Society. But in creating a forum for discussion that was open to all comers, and in appointing himself the impartial arbiter of truth and taste at this site, Macklin was also attempting to replicate the success of periodical writers, an experiment in genre mixing that he had first tried out in his play, The
Convent Garden Theatre, Or, Pasquin Turn’d Drawcansir (1752). The satires that were directed at the Inquisition, then, were a response to this effort to democratize speech, a backlash that exposed the class, ethnic, gender, and religious limits of the British public sphere.
Title: Macklin’s Talking ‘Wrongheads’
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This chapter discusses the genesis and development of Charles Macklin’s British Inquisition (1754-55), as well as the opposition which it encountered.
The Inquisition was a product, in part, of the debating society movement of the eighteenth century; it was Macklin’s attempt to emulate the success of John Henley’s Oratory and the Robin Hood Society.
But in creating a forum for discussion that was open to all comers, and in appointing himself the impartial arbiter of truth and taste at this site, Macklin was also attempting to replicate the success of periodical writers, an experiment in genre mixing that he had first tried out in his play, The
Convent Garden Theatre, Or, Pasquin Turn’d Drawcansir (1752).
The satires that were directed at the Inquisition, then, were a response to this effort to democratize speech, a backlash that exposed the class, ethnic, gender, and religious limits of the British public sphere.
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