A Biographical Dictionary Of Actors Actresses Musicians Dancers Managers And Other Stage Personnel In London 1660 1800 Cabanel To Cory

Author : Philip H. Highfill
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Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809306923
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Cabanel to Cory written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Philip H. Highfill
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Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809318025
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809308323
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809308330
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 6, Garrick to Gyngell written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809306930
Total Pages : 584 pages
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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion written by Philip H. Highfill and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809309184
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 7, Habgood to Houbert written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 7 includes such notables as the composers Handel and Haydn and the alluring actress Elizabeth Hartley.