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Elizabeth Barry
Standard Name: Barry, Elizabeth
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester | The most famous of his affairs was with the young actress Elizabeth Barry
, to whom he was apparently a useful tutor. |
| Friends, Associates | Aphra Behn | AB
was intimate with the writers' and artists' circles of her day. She befriended Thomas Otway
, and allowed him to act in her first play, when he was an insecure youth of nineteen. She... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Pix | MP
's wide circle of friends included her fellow female playwrights Delarivier Manley
, Catharine Trotter
, and Susanna Centlivre
, as well as the poet Sarah Fyge
and actresses Elizabeth Barry
and Susannah Verbruggen |
| Performance of text | Aphra Behn | The earliest recorded performance of AB
's only tragedy, Abdelazer; or, The Moor's Revenge, at Dorset Garden
, starred the new sensation, Elizabeth Barry
. The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968. |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | This oriental tragedy, set in an exotically-imagined east, opposes a sizzlingly sexual female villain, Homais (played by Elizabeth Barry
), and a model, patient, suffering but excessive heroine, Princess Selima (played by Anne Bracegirdle |
| Textual Features | Jane Wiseman | The setting and cast of characters resemble those of heroic romance. The protagonist, Antiochus, king of ancient Asia and Syria, is passionate and unstable in the manner fashionable for a tragic hero, veering wildly... |
| Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | That is, it was played by a company denuded (by the actors' walkout of autumn 1694) of the talents of Betterton
, Bracegirdle
, and Barry
, but invigorated a month or so earlier by... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Christopher St John | The First Actress draws an implicit parallel between the admission of women to the vote and their admission to stage acting at the Restoration. Peggy Hughes
, presented as first woman in the London professional... |
| Wealth and Poverty | Anne Wharton | Her relations were outraged; but probably she knew she was dying and would have no children. She also left a legacy to Rochester's daughter by Elizabeth Barry
the actress. |
Timeline
Autumn1694
Rebellion headed by the performers Thomas Betterton
, Elizabeth Barry
, and Anne Bracegirdle
put an end to the United Company
, which had been formed in 1682 with the merger of the two London theatres.
30 April 1695
Thomas Betterton
, Elizabeth Barry
, and Anne Bracegirdle
gave the first performance of their breakaway Actors' Company
, premiering Congreve
's Love for Love.
About November 1697
A tragedy by Charles Hopkins
, Boadicea, Queen of Britain, starring Elizabeth Barry
, scored an immense success.
5 January 1699
Actress Elizabeth Barry
wrote that she never knew a worse Winter in the theatre.
5 January 1699
Actress Elizabeth Barry
wrote that she never knew a worse Winter in the theatre.
May 1703
7 April 1709
On a benefit night for the septagenarian actor Thomas Betterton
, he acted a role he had created, the young hero of Congreve
's Love for Love; Elizabeth Barry
and Anne Bracegirdle
emerged from...
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