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LEKAIN

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 405 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LAP-LEO
LEKAIN , the stage name of Henri Louis
Cain
  (1728-1778), French actor, who was born in Paris on the 14th of April 1728, the son of a silversmith. He was educated at the College Mazarin, and joined an
amateur
  company of players against which the Comedic Francaise obtained an injunction. Voltaire supported him for a time and enabled him to act in his private theatre and also before the duchess of Maine. Owing to the hostility of the actors it was only after a struggle of seventeen months that. by the command of Louis XV., he was received at the Comedic Francaise. His success was immediate. Among his best parts were
Herod
  in Mariamne, Nero in Britannicus and similar tragic roles, in spite of the fact that he was short and stout, with irregular and rather common features. His name is connected with a number of important scenic reforms. It was he who had the benches removed on which privileged spectators formerly sat encumbering the stage,
Count
  Lauragais paying for him an excessive indemnity demanded. Lekain also protested against the method of sing-song declamation prevalent, and endeavoured to correct the costuming of the plays, although unable to obtain the historic accuracy at which Talma aimed. He died in Paris on the 8th of
February
  1778.
If 's eldest son published his Memoirec (18o1) with his corresponden'e ucith Voltaire,
Garrick
  and others. They were reprinted with a
preface
  In "I'ala,a in Memoires sur l'art dramatique (1825).


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