A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Author: Philip H. Highfill
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 1973
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780809311309
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Those featured in Volume 10 include Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose "conjugal virtues were often impeached," according to the July 1792Thespian Magazine. The Diction­ary describes this least constant of lovers as "of middling height, with a figure well-proportioned for breeches parts. [Her] black-haired, black-eyed beauty and clear soprano made her an immedi­ate popular success in merry maids and tuneful minxes, the piquant and the pert, for a quarter century."


A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Language: en
Pages: 444

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

Authors: Philip H. Highfill
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973 - Publisher: SIU Press

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Those featured in Volume 10 include Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose "conjugal virtues were often impeached," according to the July 1792Thes
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Cabanel to Cory
Language: en
Pages: 552

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Cabanel to Cory

Authors: Philip H. Highfill
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher: SIU Press

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Volumes three and four of this monumen­tal work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Ma
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Language: en
Pages: 504

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

Authors: Philip H. Highfill
Categories: London (England)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1973 - Publisher: SIU Press

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Language: en
Pages: 584

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

Authors: Philip H. Highfill
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1975 - Publisher: SIU Press

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Volumes three and four of this monumen­tal work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Ma
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell
Language: en
Pages: 520

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell

Authors: Philip H. Highfill
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1978 - Publisher: SIU Press

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In contrast to each other, Volume 5 is a sociological portrait of mostly little people in their tragic and comic efforts to achieve fame on the London stage dur