Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund Kean.
Doran did his work well--did it with adequate "love." These Annals of the English Stage, from Thomas Betterton to Edmund [74] Kean, are full of the colours of life in their most emphatic and motley contrasts, as is natural in proportion as the stage itself concentrates and artificially intensifies the character and conditions of ordinary life.
For some two to three months during the London theatre summer vacation, Norton entertained
Thomas Betterton, Barton Booth, John Mills, Robert Wilks, Elizabeth Barry, Anne Bracegirdle, Anne Oldfield, and "the most noted Players in the Town".
Untortunately, Whitfield appears to be unaware that the upturned chair in Frangois Boitard's design, a detail not referred to in Shakespeare's text, was a familiar piece of stage business at the time and thus does not arise from any "stroke of genius" on the part of an artist "breaking out of the theatre into real drama:' Indeed, the case can be made for identifying the Hamlet in the picture as the aging
Thomas Betterton, his "down-gyved" stocking (a detail not mentioned by Whitfield) being an allusion to Ophelia's description of Hamlet's disturbing demeanor earlier in the play.
(36) In The Counterfeit Bridegroom (published 1677), a Restoration adaptation of Thomas Middleton's No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's attributed variously to
Thomas Betterton and Aphra Behn, Sir Oliver Santlow dances a Lancashire hornpipe--now 'quite out of fashion'--on his own in act 5, albeit after much revelling and carousing (H1v).
North's stance runs counter to that of
Thomas Betterton, who may have had a hand in adapting The Fairy-Queen and who certainly had a role in its production.
Todd (1996a: xi-xii) agrees that there is no evidence to ascribe it wholly to Behn, but she may have collaborated in it, probably with
Thomas Betterton. In her biography of Behn, Todd (1996b: 466, n.
At the Betterton Theatre, run by Sir
Thomas Betterton, Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) holds audiences in thrall with his portrayals of the female roles.
At the Betterton Theatre, run by Sir
Thomas Betterton (Tom Wilkinson), Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup) holds audiences in thrall with his portrayals of the great female roles.
At the Betterton Theatre, run by Sir
Thomas Betterton (Wilkinson), Ned Kynaston (Crudup) holds sway with his portrayals of the great female roles.
Ned Kynaston Billy Crudup Maria Claire Danes King Charles II Rupert Everett
Thomas Betterton Tom Wilkinson George Villiars, Duke of Buckingham Ben Chaplin Samuel Pepys Hugh Bonneville Sir Charles Sedley Richard Griffiths Sir Edward Hyde Edward Fox Nell Gwyn Zoe Tapper Legit luminary Richard Eyre brings an intimate knowledge of stagecraft mid of the intrigues and intricacies of the theater world to "Stage Beauty," an intelligent and entertaining adaptation of Jeffrey Hatcher's play about a male actor renowned for interpreting women on the 17th century London boards.
In 1695, the actor
Thomas Betterton had seceded from the United Company managed by Christopher Rich, taking a good portion of the company with him, and set up a rival theater in a converted tennis court in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
