260px, Green and John Quick in '' The Duenna'' Jane Hippisley, subsequently Mrs. Green (1719–1791), was a British actress.

Life

She was born in 1719. She was the daughter of John Hippisley and his wife. She was the sister of Elizabeth Hippisley (-1766) who was a minor actress. Jane made her first appearance at her father John Hippisley's benefit at

Covent Garden Theatre The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a theatre in Covent Garden, central London. The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. The ROH is the main home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orch ...

on 18 March 1735 as Cherry in ''The Stratagem.'' She was

David Garrick David Garrick (19 February 1716 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, Actor-manager, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil a ...

's Ophelia in his first season at

Goodman's Fields Two 18th century theatres bearing the name Goodman's Fields Theatre were located on Alie Street, Whitechapel, London. The first opened on 31 October 1727 in a small shop by Thomas Odell, deputy Licenser of Plays. The first play performed was G ...

; as Miss Hippisley, the original Kitty Pry in the '' Lying Valet''; Biddy in ''

Miss in Her Teens ''Miss in Her Teens; or The Medley of Lovers'' is a farce (or afterpiece) written in 1747 by David Garrick. It was adapted from Florent Carton Dancourt's 1691 play ''La Parisienne''. It was the third play written by Garrick, and was first perform ...

;'' and as Mrs. Green, which name she took in 1747–1748, was the first Mrs. Malaprop. It is suggested that she took the name of Mrs. Green to conceal the illegitimate birth of a son.

Samuel Cautherley Samuel Cautherley (c.1747–1805) was a British stage actor. His surname is sometimes spelt as Cautherly. Born to the actress Jane Green (actress), Jane Green, he was reputed to be the son of David Garrick, actor-manager at the Theatre Royal, Dru ...

is thought to be her child as the result of a liaison with Garrick. Samuel probably was born in 1747.Mark Batty, ‘Hippisley, John (1696–1748)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 21 Jan 2015
/ref> Among her characters were Miss Prue, Anne Page, Perdita, Ophelia, Miss Hoyden, Nerissa, Æmilia,

Doll Tearsheet Dorothy "Doll" Tearsheet is a fictional character who appears in Shakespeare's play ''Henry IV, Part 2''. She is a prostitute who frequents the Boar's Head Inn in Eastcheap. Doll is close friends with Mistress Quickly, the proprietress of the ...

, Duenna, and Mrs. Hardcastle. She played in Dublin in 1751–1752, and probably in 1753–1754, and acted the ''Irish Widow'' at Bristol as late as 4 July 1781. Behind Mrs. Clive, she would have been the best representative on the stage of old ladies and abigails. Her farewell of the London stage took place 26 May 1780 as Mrs. Hardcastle. She died at her home at

Jacob's Well, Bristol Jacob's Well in Cliftonwood, Bristol, England, is an early medieval structure incorporated into a 19th-century building on the corner of Jacob's Wells Road and Constitution Hill. It is thought to be a Jewish ritual bath. The stone structure is ...

in the winter of 1791. There is a painting of her and another of her father. created by John Hippisley Green.John Hippersley Green
Benezit Dictionary of Artists, retrieved 22 January 2015

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Green, Jane 1791 deaths Year of birth unknown 18th-century English actresses English stage actresses