Thomas Betterton : the greatest actor of the Restoration stage /
Restoration London's leading actor and theatre manager Thomas Betterton has not been the subject of a biography since 1891. He worked with all the best-known playwrights of his age and with the first generation of English actresses. He was intimately involved in the theatre's responses to...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Look my lord, it comes: Betterton's Hamlet
- An obstinately shadowy Titan: Betterton in biography
- An actor of London: early years, 1635-1659
- A walk in the park: Betterton and the scene of comedy
- In the Duke's Company, 1660-1663
- Equal with the highest: Thomas Betterton and Henry Harris, 1663-1668
- Actor management: running the Duke's Company
- In the company of the Duke: Betterton and Catholic politics in the 1670s
- Union: Betterton and theatrical monopoly, 1682-1695
- Back to the future: breakaway to semi-retirement
- Books and pictures: Betterton and the Chandos portrait.