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The Three Strangers (play)
''The Three Strangers'' is an 1825 stage melodrama by the British writer Harriet Lee. It was based on one of her own works, ''Kruitzner'', co-written as part of ''The Canterbury Tales'' with her sister Sophia. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden on 10 December 1825. The cast included James Prescott Warde as Kruitzner, Daniel Egerton as Baron Stralenheim, Charles Kemble as Conrad, John Cooper as the Hungarian, George Bartley as Idenstein, William Blanchard as the Intendant, William Claremont as Weilberg, William Chapman as Herman, Louisa Chatterley as Josephine and Julia Glover Julia Betterton Glover (8 January 1779 – 16 July 1850) was an Irish-born stage actress well known for her comic roles in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Biography Glover was born Julia Butterton in 1779 or 1781 in Newry, Ireland. ... as Mrs Weilberg. A relative disappointment, the play was performed four times and Lee retired after this.Franceschina p.68-69 Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harriet Lee (writer)
Harriet Lee was an English writer and novelist, born in London in 1757, and died near Bristol at Clifton, England, on August 1, 1851. Her father, John Lee, was an actor and theatrical manager who died in 1781, her mother, name unknown, was also an actress. Additionally, she was the sister of Sophia Lee (1750–1824), a notable dramatist. Life Lee was born in London in 1757. After the death of her father, John Lee, in 1781, she helped her sister, Sophia Lee, manage a private school in Belvedere House, Bath. In 1786, she published ''The Errors of Innocence,'' a novel broken up into five volumes, written in epistolary form. She also wrote a comedy, called '' The New Peerage,'' which was performed at Drury Lane on November 10, 1787. It had a prologue written by Richard Cumberland. Although it was performed nine times, it was not successful enough to encourage her to continue writing for the stage. John Genest described it as '''on the whole, a poor play. It was published w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Blanchard (comedian)
William Blanchard (1769–1835) was an English comedian. Early life Blanchard was born in York on 2 January 1769, and for a few years was educated at a private school in that city. Losing both his father, John Blanchard, and his mother, whose maiden name was Clapham, while he was still a child, he was left to the care of his uncle, William Blanchard, long well known as the proprietor of the '' York Chronicle'', by whom he was reared with a tenderness seldom displayed even by a parent. In 1782 he was placed in his uncle's office. Early theatrical career He took such delight in Shakespeare that in 1785 he resolved to become an actor. He joined Mr. Welsh's company of travelling comedians at Buxton. His first appearance was as Allan-a-Dale in M'Nally's' Robin Hood.' For four years he played under the name of Bentley, but from 1789 in his own name. He took the parts of Achmet, Douglas, and even Romeo. Asperne, of the ''European Magazine'', wrote of him at that period: 'I knew John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Plays
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West End Plays
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1825 Plays
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Julia Glover
Julia Betterton Glover (8 January 1779 – 16 July 1850) was an Irish-born stage actress well known for her comic roles in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Biography Glover was born Julia Butterton in 1779 or 1781 in Newry, Ireland. In London in 1800 she married Samuel Glover the son of an industrial family from Birmingham. "Betterton" was not her real name, despite her father`s promotion of the fiction. She was born Julianna Butterton in Newry, Ireland, the daughter of the town`s theatre manager William Butterton. His venture failed and he decided there would be financial benefit to him if her name were changed to "Betterton", claiming links to a famous actor and long dead Thomas Betterton. With this deception he and his family travelled round the theatres and the young Julia was acclaimed as an infant acting prodigy in York, the West Country, Bath and elsewhere. At age 9 she made her debut in Scotland at the Dumfries Theatre Royal in 1790, and at age 16 she made he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Chatterley
Louisa Chatterley or Louisa Place born Louisa Simeon (1797 – 4 November 1866) was a British actress. She was involved in an embezzlement case, and later married a noted social reformer with fifteen children. Life Louisa Simeon was born in Piccadilly on 16 October 1797 to Madame Simeon. From the age of three she was sent by her milliner mother to a convent near Liverpool, a boarding school in Bath and finally a seminary in London. She married the actor William Simmonds Chatterley, at Bedminster, on 11 August 1813. The two of them both enjoyed some success. Louisa took the name "Mrs Chatterley" and worked regularly in comedic roles in Bath and London. It was said that she was particularly adept at playing a French woman. She appeared in well known plays including ''The Rivals, She Stoops to Conquer,'' and ''Twelve Precisely,'' where Chatterley was required to play twelve different roles as she tests the character of a lover. In the winter of 1821 Mrs Chatterley was earning 12 guin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Chapman (actor)
William Chapman was a British stage actor active in the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. Considerable uncertainly exists about his early biography, but he became an established performer in London's West End theatre, West End at the major theatres Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, Covent Garden, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Drury Lane and Theatre Royal, Haymarket, Haymarket. Considerable crossover may exist with other actors of the era named Chapman.Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.164 Selected roles * Orozembo in ''Pizarro (play), Pizarro'' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1800) * Manly in ''The Will for the Deed'' by Thomas John Dibdin, Thomas Dibdin (1804) * Mr Balance in ''Guilty or Not Guilty (play), Guilty or Not Guilty'' by Thomas John Dibdin, Thomas Dibdin (1804) * Heartly in ''Who Wants a Guinea?'' by George Colman the Younger (1805) *Squire Flail in ''Five Miles Off'' by Thomas John Dibdin, Thomas Dibdin (1806) * Malcolm in ''Edgar (play), Edgar'' by George Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Claremont
William Claremont (died 1832) was a British stage actor who spent many years in the companies of the leading London theatres at Covent Garden, Haymarket and Drury Lane. He was born William Cleaver in London as the son of a shop assistant and a deliveryman and was originally apprenticed to a linen merchant. His first known acting roles were in Margate in 1792 and from 1793 he was a regular at Covent Garden. During the summers he also appeared at Richmond and Birmingham. He continued at Covent Garden until 1805 when he switched to Drury Lane and remained there until 1822.Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.294 Selected roles * Conrade in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' by William Shakespeare (1793) * Sir Fred Faintly in ''Speculation'' by Frederick Reynolds (1795) * Vicomte de Beaumont in ''England Preserved'' by George Watson-Taylor (1795) * Ebert in '' The Days of Yore'' by Richard Cumberland (1796) * Mountaineer in '' Joanna of Montfaucon'' by Richard Cumberland (1800) * Gomez in ''Alfons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bartley (comedian)
George Bartley (1782?–1858) was an English stage comedian. He was successful in playing comic old men and bluff uncles, and Falstaff became his favourite character. He had roles in many Shakespearean Comedies throughout his career spanning over half a century. Early life Bartley was born in Bath, Somerset presumably in or about 1782. His father was box-keeper at the Bath Theatre. While still a youth he acquired some stage experience, appearing in characters ordinarily assigned to women, such as the page in John Cartwright Cross's musical drama, ''The Purse''. After a period of odd jobs, Bartley appeared at Cheltenham in the summer of 1800 as Orlando in ''As You Like It''. He is said to have appeared again in Bath, and then joined a travelling company. In Guernsey he made his first marriage, his wife being a member of the company, named Stanton, by whom he was nursed through an illness. In London To the influence of Dorothea Jordan, who in 1802 saw him in Margate, Bartl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
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John Cooper (actor)
John Cooper (1793–1870), was a British actor active between 1811 and 1859, who played in "a singularly large number of parts, some of them of leading importance"Joseph Knight, ‘Cooper, John (1793–1870)’, rev. Nilanjana Banerji, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 23 Jan 2010/ref> in many locations in England, Wales and Scotland. Career Early years Cooper was born in Bath in 1793, the son of a tradesman. His first recorded role was as "Alonzo" in E. Young's ''The Revenge'', in a private theatre. He first appeared on the Bath stage on 14 March 1811, aged 18. His first appearance in London was at the Haymarket, on 15 May 1811, as "Count Montalban" in John Tobin's ''The Honeymoon''. He subsequently joined Andrew Cherry and played in a number of Welsh theatres, and in 1812 he played in the north of England and in Scotland. In Edinburgh he played "Edgar" to Edmund Kean's ''King Lear'', and in Glasgow was the first to play the title rol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |