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,
qtd. in
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, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
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. Editor Gibbs, Vicary, St Catherine Press, 1910–1959, 14 vols.
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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
and the second (most discreetly conducted) with the...
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.
qtd. in
Feminist Companion Archive.
The play is set in...
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...
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...

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 .
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
1: 416

: 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.

9 April 1705: Vanbrugh's new Haymarket Theatre (at this...

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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.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
2: 75, 91

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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