A Man of the People

I've written before about the actor Edmund Kean's working-class associations, including his membership in the notorious Wolves Club . William Hazlitt , a theatre critic who admired Kean, frequently linked him with the common man. "Mr. Kean's acting is not of the patrician order," he wrote in the London Magazine in 1820, "he is one of the people, and what might be termed a radical performer."…