A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800Volumes three and four of this monumental work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria--Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George Colman, the Elder, and the Younger, William Davenant, and De Loutherboug. But here also are full entries for dozens of important secondary figures and of minor ones whose stories have never been told, as well as a census (and at least a few recoverable facts) for even the most inconsiderable performers and servants of the theatres. As in the previous volumes in this distinguished series, the accompanying illustrations include at least one picture of each subject for whom a portrait exists. |
Contents
Section 1 | 113 |
Section 2 | 120 |
Section 3 | 159 |
Section 4 | 179 |
Section 5 | 232 |
Section 6 | 257 |
Section 7 | 301 |
Section 8 | 343 |
Section 15 | 544 |
Section 16 | 545 |
Section 17 | 547 |
Section 18 | 552 |
Section 19 | 553 |
Section 20 | 554 |
Section 21 | 555 |
Section 22 | 560 |
Section 9 | 361 |
Section 10 | 395 |
Section 11 | 435 |
Section 12 | 469 |
Section 13 | 491 |
Section 14 | 532 |
Section 23 | 561 |
Section 24 | 563 |
Section 25 | 567 |
Section 26 | 568 |
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