William McCready in Podcasts
personWilliam McCready, British Shakespearean actor performing in New York in 1849.
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These working-class Americans want to show how much they hate him and his whole English style of acting. Ned picks up a New York paper, and all of a sudden, everything starts to come together. Because he reads that in just a few days, William McCready will arrive in New York to close out his American tour with several performances at the famous Astor Place Opera House. Ned wants to fan the flames.
It's from a publication out of Cincinnati, Ohio. As Ned reads it, he can't stop laughing. The story is about a famous British Shakespearean actor named William McCready. He's been touring the United States for a few months, performing some of Shakespeare's most famous roles like Hamlet and Macbeth.