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30 mag 2024 · Already in France with the King was Thomas Killigrew, playwright, one of the grooms of the bedchamber, and according to Pepys, 'a merry droll, but a gentleman of great esteem with the King', who may well have already promised him some theatrical preferment.
5 giorni fa · On 21 August 1660 a royal grant under the privy signet authorized Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant to build or hire two playhouses in London and to maintain two companies of actors to perform in them.
5 giorni fa · William Killigrew, Esq., their immediate descendant, was created a baronet in 1661. The title, and the male line of the elder branch of the family, became extinct by the death of Sir Peter, the second baronet (nephew of Sir William) in 1704.
17 ore fa · The church interior has several monuments and brasses of interest the oldest of which are the Killigrew brasses commemorating local gentleman and successful trader Thomas Killigrew who died in 1484 and his wife and daughters. In addition to other wall mounted memorials, the 14 Stations of the Cross are displayed around the church.
9 mag 2024 · In 1668 Dryden agreed to write exclusively for Thomas Killigrew’s company at the rate of three plays a year and became a shareholder entitled to one-tenth of the profits. Although Dryden averaged only a play a year, the contract apparently was mutually profitable.
28 mag 2024 · Thomas Killigrew, a Court buffoon, with a troop called the King's Men, opened a new theater in Drury Lane, Covent Garden in 1663.
20 mag 2024 · He was part of a household interacting on a daily basis with French officials both within France and based in England, like Châtillon and his servant Dupin (or de Pin), and with several other like-minded English Protestants of the more advanced sort, some of whom Beale had known for many years, like Killigrew, Rogers, and Thomas Danett (who continued to serve as courier between England and ...
