''The Different Widows'' is a 1703
comedy play
Comedy is a genre of dramatic performance having a light or humorous tone that depicts amusing incidents and in which the characters ultimately triumph over adversity. For ancient Greeks and Romans, a comedy was a stage-play with a happy endin ...
by the British writer
Mary Pix
Mary Pix (1666 – 17 May 1709) was an English novelist and playwright. As an admirer of Aphra Behn and colleague of Susanna Centlivre, Pix has been called "a link between women writers of the Restoration and Augustan periods".
Early years
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[Nicoll p.350]
It premiered at the
Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London. The original cast included
George Powell as Sir James Belmont,
John Corey as Careless,
George Pack as Sir Anthony Loveman,
Francis Leigh as Dandle,
Barton Booth
Barton Booth (168210 May 1733) was one of the most famous dramatic actors of the first part of the 18th century.
Early life
Booth was the son of The Hon and Very Revd Dr Robert Booth, Dean of Bristol, by his first wife and distant cousin An ...
as Valentine,
Elinor Leigh
Elinor Leigh was a British stage actor of the seventeenth century.
Born Elinor Dixon, she was billed as Mrs Leigh or Mrs Lee after she married the actor Anthony Leigh in 1671. This has led to some difficulty distinguishing on playbills between he ...
as Widow Bellmont,
Mary Porter as Lady Loveman,
Elizabeth Willis as Lady Courtall and
Lucretia Bradshaw
Lucretia Bradshaw (fl. 1714 - 1741) was an English actress. She was often billed as Mrs. Bradshaw.
In Thomas Betterton's 1741 ''A History of the English Stage'', it is stated that:
She declared herself to have learned from Elizabeth Barry: "to ...
as Mariana.
References
Bibliography
* Burling, William J. ''A Checklist of New Plays and Entertainments on the London Stage, 1700-1737''. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992.
* Nicoll, Allardyce. ''History of English Drama, 1660-1900, Volume 2''. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
1703 plays
West End plays
Comedy plays
Plays by Mary Pix
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