The Journal of William Charles Macready

Celebrated actor, friend and associate of Dickens, Browning, and most of the principal figures in the drama and literature of mid nineteenth century, William Charles Macready was also a compulsive diarist. His journal of twenty-one years is a candid and absorbing self-revelation. A man of quick temper and often extraordinary contradiction of character, he lived at odds with the profession he led and which he did so much to lift. None of the essentials missed, he comments on the assault on Bunn, the affair with actress Helen Faucit, and his fierce rivalry with Forrest, as well as a complete portrait of a difficult, exciting man, his fights with himself and others.