The Dynamics of Authorial Forgetting: The Case of James Robertson

• Published in: Eighteenth-century life Vol. 49; no. 1; p. 84
• Main Author: Walker, Robert G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Duke University Press, NC & IL 01.01.2025
• Subjects: 18th century; Actors; Case studies; Comics; Poetry; Social criticism & satire

James Robertson (1713 – 95) was born in Dublin but spent most of his life in England. By profession a comic actor associated for two decades with the York Theatre, in 1770 he published anonymously a relatively large volume of poetry (239 pages), with the title Poems, Consisting of Tales, Fables, Epi...