William Charles Macready was an English stage actor. The son of Irish actor-manager William Macready the Elder he emerged as a leading West End performer during...

                              in all its sublime depths, if not                 He was very sparing of words                   sudden look or startling gesture, yet by a condensation of vigorous “utterance and                   in this style he will go far.”  

— various confusions (a quotation mark for p) at “Macready’s Reminiscences,” being a review of Macready’s Reminiscences, and Selections from his Diaries. Edited by Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart., one of his Executors (1875), taken from the Quarterly Review, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science and Art 22:1 (July 1875) : 1-24 (15-16)

The Dollop – Episode 116 – The Actor Rivalry

Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds examine the rivalry of actors Edwin Forrest and William Macready.

You might think this is someone describing our present political state, but it was actually Charles Dickens writing to actor William Macready, in 1842, after watching a congressional budget debate.