A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 464
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ISBN-10 : 080930919X
ISBN-13 : 9780809309191
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Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 8, Hough to Keyse by : Philip H. Highfill

Volume 8 dis­cusses, among others, the careers of Charles Incledon, the "English Ballad-Singer," boxing champion of England, "Gentleman" John Jackson, and members of the famous Kemble family-- Charles, Maria Theresa, Frances, Henry, John Philip, Priscilla, Elizabeth, Roger, and Stephen.

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 552
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ISBN-10 : 0809306921
ISBN-13 : 9780809306923
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Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory by : Philip H. Highfill

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 7, Habgood to Houbert

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : 0809309181
ISBN-13 : 9780809309184
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Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert by : Philip H. Highfill

Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley.

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
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 0809318024
ISBN-13 : 9780809318025
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Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by : Philip H. Highfill

The penultimate volume of the vast project begun some two decades ago, Volume 15, illustrated like its predecessors with bandw portraits and other artwork, provides information on theatre people including singer Catherine Tofts, comedian James Tokely, bearded lady and harpsichordist Barbara Van Beck, proprietor, playwright, and architect John Vanbrugh, theatrical families like the Vaughans and the husband- and-wife thespians John Baptista and Susanna Verbruggen and the dancing Vestres--Gaetan Appoline Balthazar and his illegitimate son Marie Jean Augustin, as well as a host of Wards (some related, some not). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 584
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ISBN-10 : 080930693X
ISBN-13 : 9780809306930
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion by : Philip H. Highfill

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 6, Garrick to Gyngell

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 520
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ISBN-10 : 0809308339
ISBN-13 : 9780809308330
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell by : Philip H. Highfill

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.

Humanities

Humanities
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Total Pages : 34
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ISBN-10 : PURD:32754081674586
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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
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 0809311305
ISBN-13 : 9780809311309
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 by : Philip H. Highfill

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."