Charles Mathews

Charles Mathews ( born June 28, 1776 in London, † June 28, 1835 in Plymouth ) was an English actor and writer.

Charles Mathews, son of a bookseller, received his education at Merchant Talor 's School. In 1794 he gained from his reluctant father's permission to become an actor and took part in an engagement in Dublin. In 1803 he made ​​her first appearance in London. He played the Jabel in Cumberland 's play The Jew and the Lingo in The Agreeable Surprise. This was the breakthrough he had succeeded. From 1818 onwards, he performed his piece At Home, in which he played all roles, at the Lyceum Theatre. In 1822 he traveled to America for the first time, in 1834 a second time. His last performances in New York City, he had on 11 February 1835 as Samuel Coddle in Married Life and as Andrew Steward in The Lone House.

Mathews was married twice. His first wife, Eliza Kirkham Strong, he married 1797. Having Eliza had died in 1802, he married in 1803, the actress Anne Jackson, who wrote the four-volume Memoirs by Mrs. Mathews. The books came out in 1838 and 1839. From the marriage with Anne Jackson, his son Charles James Mathews emerged. This initially trained as an architect, but then turned and the acting and writing to. In the Haymarket Theatre in 1861, he produced another series of at- home ideas, as she had also given his father.

Work

• Othello, The Moor of Fleet Street, 1833, reissued by Manfred Draudt, Francke 1993, ISBN 978-3772021329