A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809311309 |
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, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809306930 |
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 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.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809306923 |
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 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.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | London (England) |
ISBN | 9780809305186 |
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809318032 |
Volume 16 completes the magisterial Biographical Dictionary which provides information on some 8,500 of the people who contributed to the patent theatres, opera houses, fair booths, concert halls, and pleasure gardens in and around London during the period from 1660 to 1800. The final volume centers on Margaret Woffington, "the most beautiful woman that ever adorned a theatre" (the judgment of Thomas Davies--evidenced by the nine included portraits). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 5, Eagan to Garrett
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 5, Eagan to Garrett PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809308323 |
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 during the Restoration and eighteenth century, whereas Volume 6 is dominated by the glamour of David Garrick, Nell Gwyn, and Joseph Grimaldi, the celebrated clown. Some 250 portraits individualize the great and small of the theatres of London.
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert
Title | A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert PDF eBook |
Author | Philip H. Highfill |
Publisher | SIU Press |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780809309184 |
Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley.