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The Generous Enemies
''The Generous Enemies; Or, The Ridiculous Lovers'' is a 1671 comedy play by the writer John Corye. It was first staged by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London. The original cast included William Wintershall as Signior Robatzy, Edward Lydall as Signior Cassidoro, Michael Mohun as Don Alvarez, Edward Kynaston as Signior Flaminio, William Cartwright as Don Bertran, Richard Bell as Sanco, Rebecca Marshall as Jaccinta, Elizabeth James as Alleria, Elizabeth Boutell as Lysander and Katherine Corey Katherine Corey (fl. 1660 – 1692) was an English actress of the Restoration era, one of the first generation of female performers to appear on the public stage in Britain. Corey played with the King's Company and the United Company, and had one ... as Julia.Van Lennep p.182 References Bibliography * Van Lennep, W. ''The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume One, 1660-1700''. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960. 1671 plays West End plays Restoration c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England. The building faces Catherine Street (earlier named Bridges or Brydges Street) and backs onto Drury Lane. The building is the most recent in a line of four theatres which were built at the same location, the earliest of which dated back to 1663, making it the oldest theatre site in London still in use. According to the author Peter Thomson, for its first two centuries, Drury Lane could "reasonably have claimed to be London's leading theatre". For most of that time, it was one of a handful of patent theatres, granted monopoly rights to the production of "legitimate" drama in London (meaning spoken plays, rather than opera, dance, concerts, or plays with music). The first theatre on the site was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early 1660s, when theatres were allowed to reopen during the English Restoration. Initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cartwright (actor)
William Cartwright (died 17 December 1686) was an English actor of the seventeenth century, whose career spanned the Caroline era to the Restoration. He is sometimes known as William Cartwright, Junior or William Cartwright the younger to distinguish him from his father, another William Cartwright (fl. 1598 – 1636), an actor of the previous generation. Early career William Cartwright the younger was about eighty years old when he died; he was therefore born around 1606 or 1607. Nothing is known of his early life; it is reasonable to assume that he began his stage career under his father's tutelage. He was included with his father on a 1635 list of actors; apparently they both belonged to the King's Revels Men at that time. James Wright's '' Historia Histrionica'' (1699) maintains that the younger Cartwright was associated with the Salisbury Court Theatre — which may refer to his time with his father's troupe, or may indicate that he was with Queen Henrietta's Men in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1671 Plays
Events January–March * January 1 – The Criminal Ordinance of 1670, the first attempt at a uniform code of criminal procedure in France, goes into effect after having been passed on August 26, 1670. * January 5 – The Battle of Salher is fought in India as the first major confrontation between the Maratha Empire and the Mughal Empire, with the Maratha Army of 40,000 infantry and cavalry under the command of General Prataprao Gujar defeating a larger Mughal force led by General Diler Khan. * January 17 – The ballet ''Psyché'', with music composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully, premieres before the royal court of King Louis XIV at the Théâtre des Tuileries in Paris. * January 28 – The city of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Panamá, founded more than 150 years earlier at the Isthmus of Panama by Spanish settlers and the first permanent European settlement on the Pacific Ocean, is destroyed by the Welsh pirate Henry Morgan. The last surviving or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Corey
Katherine Corey (fl. 1660 – 1692) was an English actress of the Restoration era, one of the first generation of female performers to appear on the public stage in Britain. Corey played with the King's Company and the United Company, and had one of the longest careers of any actress in her generation. In "The humble petition of Katherine Corey" (see below), she stated that she "was the first and is the last of all the actresses that were constituted by King Charles the Second at His Restauration." Correy started her career under her maiden name, Mitchell, but was Mrs. Corey by 1663. "Mrs Corey was a big woman with a gift for comedy. She was popular in a variety of roles, but especially in old women parts: scolding wives, mothers, governesses, waiting women, and bawds." In his Diary, Samuel Pepys, who admired Corey's talents, calls her "Doll Common" after her part in Ben Jonson's '' The Alchemist''. In her three decades on the stage, Corey played a wide range of roles; in revivals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Boutell
Elizabeth Boutell (early 1650s?—1715), was a British actress. Life She joined, soon after its formation, the company at the Theatre Royal, subsequently known as Drury Lane, and was accordingly one of the first women to appear on the English stage. Her earliest recorded appearance took place presumably in 1663 or 1664, as Estifania in ''Rule a Wife and Have a Wife''. She joined the King's Company about 1670 and played many important roles in the 1670s, including Benzayda in John Dryden's ''The Conquest of Granada'' (December 1670 and January 1671), and probably Rosalinda in Nathaniel Lee's ''Sophonisba'' (3 April 1675). She "created" among other characters, Melantha in Dryden's '' Marriage à la mode'' (c. April 1672), Margery Pinchwife in William Wycherley's ''The Country Wife'' (12 January 1675), Cleopatra in Dryden's '' All for Love'', and Mrs. Termagant in Shadwell's ''The Squire of Alsatia''. Cibber somewhat curiously omits from his ''Apology'' all mention of her name. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth James
Elizabeth James was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century. She was a member of the King's Company, based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Several of her known performances were in the premieres of work by John Dryden. She also featured in the debut of William Wycherley's ''The Country Wife'' in 1675. Her last known stage role was in 1676, although it appears she was still in the public eye more than a decade later.Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.130-131 Selected roles * Damilcar in ''Tyrannick Love'' by John Dryden (1669) * Isabella in ''The Conquest of Granada'' by John Dryden (1670) * Alleria in ''The Generous Enemies'' by John Corye (1671) * Isabel in ''Love in a Wood (play), Love in a Wood'' by William Wycherley (1671) * Amalthea in ''Marriage à la mode (play), Marriage à la mode'' by John Dryden (1672) * Sophronia in ''The Assignation'' by John Dryden (1672) * Julia in ''Amboyna (play), Amboyna'' by John Dryden (1673) * Arabella in ''The Amorous Old Woman'' by T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Marshall
Rebecca Marshall (fl. 1663 – 1677) was a noted English actress of the Restoration era, one of the first generation of women performers on the public stage in Britain. She was the younger sister of Anne Marshall, another prominent actress of the period. The younger Marshall sister began acting with the King's Company, under the management of Thomas Killigrew, around 1663; she remained with that troupe for her full career, except for a final year with the rival Duke's Company in 1677. She acted with her sister Anne at least once, in John Dryden's ''The Maiden Queen'' in 1664; Anne played Candiope, and Rebecca played the Queen. When her older sister retired from the stage (temporarily) in 1668, Rebecca inherited several of her roles, as Aurelia in Dryden's '' An Evening's Love'' and Nourmahal in ''Aureng-zebe''; she may also have inherited the part of Evadne in Beaumont and Fletcher's ''The Maid's Tragedy''. Rebecca Marshall's other roles were: * Calpurnia in Shakespeare's '' J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bell (actor)
Richard Bell (died 1672) was an English stage actor. He joined the King's Company based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1668. Considered a promising actor he appeared in the premieres of two plays by John Dryden and William Wycherley's debut '' Love in a Wood''. His career was cut short when he was killed in a fire that destroyed the Drury Lane theatre in January 1672. A planned role for him in Wycherley's new play ''The Gentleman Dancing Master'' had to be cut.McCarthy p.49 Selected roles * Frapolo in '' The Sisters'' by James Shirley (1668) * Christophero in ''The Island Princess'' by John Fletcher (1668) *Amariel in ''Tyrannick Love'' by John Dryden (1669) * Honorius in '' The Roman Empress'' by William Joyner (1670) * Duke of Arcos in ''The Conquest of Granada'' by John Dryden (1670) * Sanco in '' The Generous Enemies'' by John Corye (1671) * Vincent in '' Love in a Wood'' by William Wycherley (1671) * Julius Caesar in '' Julius Caesar'' by William Shakespeare Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Kynaston (actor)
Edward Kynaston (c. 1640 – January 1706) was an English actor, one of the last Restoration "boy players", young male actors who played women's roles. Career Kynaston was good looking and made a convincing woman: Samuel Pepys called him "the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life" after seeing him in a production of John Fletcher's '' The Loyal Subject'' at the Cockpit-in-Court, "only her voice snot very good". He also played the title role in Ben Jonson's '' Epicoene''. Pepys had dinner with Kynaston after this production on 18 August 1660. Simultaneously, Kynaston played male roles as well. He filled the role of Otto in '' Rollo Duke of Normandy'' on 6 December 1660, having played the female role of Arthiope in the same play in previous weeks. On 7 January 1661, Kynaston played three roles in a performance of Jonson's '' Epicoene'', one female and two male. Part of Kynaston's appeal may have been his ambiguous sexuality. The actor Colley Cibber recalled: "the Ladi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Mohun
Michael Mohun (1616? – buried 11 October 1684) was a leading English actor both before and after the 1642–60 closing of the theatres. Mohun began his stage career as a boy player filling female roles; he was part of Christopher Beeston's theatrical establishment at the Cockpit Theatre, "eventually becoming a key member of Queen Henrietta's Men." For the period from 1642 to 1659, Mohun was an officer in military units loyal to the House of Stuart; he served in England, Ireland, and the Low Countries, and rose to the rank of major. He was seriously wounded at Dublin, and was a prisoner of war for two extended periods. At the end of the English Interregnum, Mohun was one of the men — George Jolly and John Rhodes were others — who attempted to restart dramatic performance. In 1659 Mohun performed with other pre-Commonwealth actors in an unlicensed troupe at the Red Bull Theatre. As the manager of the troupe, Mohun came to an agreement with the Master of the Revels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lydall
Edward Lydall was an English stage actor of the seventeenth century. He was a member of the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.Wilson p.34 His first known performance was in 1668. He generally played supporting roles. His surname is sometimes written as Lidell. Selected roles * Don Melchor de Guzman in ''An Evening's Love'' by John Dryden (1668) * Valerius in ''Tyrannick Love'' by John Dryden (1669) * Statilius in '' The Roman Empress'' by William Joyner (1670) * Prince Abdalla in ''The Conquest of Granada'' by John Dryden (1670) * Signor Cassidoro in '' The Generous Enemies'' by John Corye (1671) * Argaleon in '' Marriage à la mode'' by John Dryden (1672) * Collins in '' Amboyna'' by John Dryden (1673) * Don Alonzo in '' The Spanish Rogue'' by Thomas Duffett (1673) * Piso in ''Nero'' by Nathaniel Lee (1674) * Lelius in ''Sophonisba'' by Nathaniel Lee (1675) * Apollo in '' Psyche Debauched'' by Thomas Duffet (1675) * Loredano in '' Love in the Dark'' by Francis Fane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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