Name: A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 10, M'Intosh to Nash: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800
Author: Highfill, Philip H
ISBN: 9780809311309

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A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 10, M'Intosh to Nash: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800

by Philip H Highfill, Jr

Southern Illinois University Press, 1984
Cloth: 978-0-8093-1130-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8093-8024-4

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Those featured in Volume 10 include Margaret Martyr, a singer, actress, and dancer whose “conjugal virtues were often impeached,” according to the July 1792Thespian Magazine. The Dictionary describes this least constant of lovers as “of middling height, with a figure well-proportioned for breeches parts. [Her] black-haired, black-eyed beauty and clear soprano made her an immediate popular success in merry maids and tuneful minxes, the piquant and the pert, for a quarter century.”

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Philip Highfill, Jr., is Professor of English at George Washington University.

Kalman A. Burnim is Professor of Drama at Tufts University.

Edward A. Langhans is Professor of Drama and Theater at the University of Hawaii.

REVIEWS

“No major reference library can afford to ignore these works in which the authors Philip H. Highfill, Jr., Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans continue their census of London theatrical persons of all ranks, from the Restoration to the Regency—clowns and carpenters, scene painters and strolling players, dancers and dwarfs, managers and monologists. Theirs is the fruit of a search of many years through sixty-five libraries. The entries are illuminated by portraits and illustrations gleaned from public galleries and private collections all over the world. The set is a reference work of the first order.”—Theatre & Performing Arts Collections

“This multi-volume work is one of the most important reference aids to be published on the English theatre of the Restoration and eighteenth-century.”

—American Reference Books Annual

“An indispensable reference.”—The English Association

“A reference set of the first importance.”—The Eighteenth Century

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