Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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, 5 vols. |
| 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 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 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
: Rebellion headed by the performers Thomas...
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Autumn 1694
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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 439
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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 439, 443, 445, 446
Hume, Robert D. “Jeremy Collier and the Future of the London Theatre in 1698”. British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS) Conference, Oxford, 3 Jan. 1998.
About November 1697: A tragedy by Charles Hopkins, Boadicea, Queen...
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About November 1697
A tragedy by Charles Hopkins
, Boadicea, Queen of Britain, starring Elizabeth Barry
, scored an immense success.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
5 January 1699: Actress Elizabeth Barry wrote that she never...
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5 January 1699
Actress Elizabeth Barry
wrote that she never knew a worse Winter in the theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 507
5 January 1699: Actress Elizabeth Barry wrote that she never...
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5 January 1699
Actress Elizabeth Barry
wrote that she never knew a worse Winter in the theatre.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 507
May 1703: Nicholas Rowe published his she-tragedy The...
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May 1703
Nicholas Rowe
published his she-tragedyThe Fair Penitent.
Watson, George, and Ian Roy Wilson, editors. The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 1969, 5 vols., http://U of A, HSS Ruth N Flr 1 Ref.
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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