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Thomas Betterton (August 1635 – 28 April 1710), the leading male actor and theatre manager during Restoration England, son of an under-cook to King Charles I, was born in London .
Thomas Betterton in un ritratto di Sir Godfrey Kneller. Thomas Patrick Betterton (Londra, 1635 – 28 aprile 1710) è stato un attore teatrale inglese
24 apr 2024 · Thomas Betterton was a leading English actor of the Restoration period and author of several popular adaptations. Betterton made his debut in 1659 and in 1661 was hired by Sir William Davenant for the Duke’s Company, which played successively at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre and at Dorset.
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Attore e autore drammatico (Londra 1635 circa - ivi 1710). Per incarico del re Carlo II si recò a Parigi per studiarvi la scenotecnica della Comédie Italienne e del Teatro di Molière. Fu applaudito interprete di Shakespeare, di Webster. Sua moglie, Mary Saunderson (m. 1712), fu eccellente attrice.
the greatest actor in the Restoration, joined D'Avenant's company at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and was associated in the management of the Dorset Garden Theatre from 1671. His dramas include The Roman Virgin (acted 1669); The Prophetess (1690), an opera; and King Henry IV (1700).
The most substantial study available of any seventeenth-century actor, Thomas Betterton gives one of England's greatest performing artists his due on the tercentenary of his death. Presents an array of new findings and deductions about Betterton's life and career, of particular interest to theatre scholars interested in documentary records of ...
24 ott 2023 · The most substantial study available of any seventeenth-century actor, Thomas Betterton gives one of England's greatest performing artists his due on the tercentenary of his death. Reviews
