A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 4, Corye to Dynion: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-180

ISBN-13: 9780809306930 / Angielski / Twarda / 1975 / 576 str.

Philip H Highfill

Opis

Volumes three and four of this monumental work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the CibbersColley, Theophilus, and Susanna MariaKitty 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."