Anne Bracegirdle

Standard Name: Bracegirdle, Anne

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Dedications Mary Pix
She dedicated it to Lord Scarsdale , a Man of Pleasure more than Business,
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Gibbs, VicaryEditor , St Catherine Press, 1959.
11: 519
who left £1,000 to Anne Bracegirdle .
Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Gibbs, VicaryEditor , St Catherine Press, 1959.
11: 517-9
It was so badly printed that it had to appear...
Family and Intimate relationships William Congreve
Congreve never married. He had two successive long-term liaisons, the first with the actress Anne Bracegirdle , for whose interpretation he created all his heroines of comedy,
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
and the second (most discreetly conducted) with the...
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 Mary Pix
The prologue (not by MP ) says the play is a woman's contribution to reforming the stage. Her epilogue declares a commitment to naturalism: Let Humane Nature, Humane Creatures please.
Feminist Companion Archive.
The play is set in...
Textual Production Emma Marshall
She returned to literature (though she may not have thought of it as such) with In the Service of Rachel, Lady Russell , A Story, 1893, and with Penshurst Castle in the time of...
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...

Timeline

9 December 1692
The actor William Mountfort was treacherously murdered after trying to prevent two rakes from abducting his colleague Anne Bracegirdle .
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.
9 April 1705
Vanbrugh 's new Haymarket Theatre (at this date also known as both the Queen's Theatre and as the Opera House) opened with an anonymous Italian opera.
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...