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Anne Bracegirdle
Standard Name: Bracegirdle, Anne
Connections
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Textual Production | Catharine Trotter | |
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 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. |
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 |
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 11: 519 Cokayne, George Edward. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press. 11: 517-9 |
Timeline
9 December 1692: The actor William Mountfort was treacherously...
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9 December 1692
The actor William Mountfort
was treacherously murdered after trying to prevent two rakes from abducting his colleague Anne Bracegirdle
.
: Rebellion headed by the performers Thomas...
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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...
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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...
Building item
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...
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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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