''The Perplexities'' is a 1767
comedy play by the British actor and writer
Thomas Hull.
[Watson p.841] It was a reworking of an earlier
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-era play ''
Adventures of Five Hours'' by
Samuel Tuke Samuel Tuke may refer to:
*Sir Samuel Tuke, 1st Baronet (c.1615–1674), English Royalist officer, playwright and nobleman
*Samuel Tuke (reformer)
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, itself based on an original Spanish work.
The original
Covent Garden
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cast included Hull himself as Don Juan,
William Smith as Don Antonio,
David Ross as Don Henriquez,
George Mattocks
George Mattocks (1735–1804) was a British stage actor and singer.
He appeared at Southwark Fair in 1747 as a child performer and the following year appeared at Bartholomew Fair. Originally billed as George Maddox when he started at Drury Lane h ...
as Don Florio,
John Cushing as Ernesto,
Maria Macklin
Maria Macklin (1733 – 1781) was a British actress. Her parents were both leading Irish born actors.
Life
During the 1730s her father Charles Macklin and her mother Ann Grace Purvor were lovers. They were both Irish born actors appearing on t ...
as Honoria,
Mary Bulkley
Mary Bulkley, née Wilford (1747/8 – 1792), known professionally as Mrs Bulkley, Miss Bulkley, and later Mrs Barresford, was an English eighteenth-century dancer and comedy stage actress. She performed at various theatres, especially Covent G ...
as Felicia and
Jane Green as Rosa.
References
Bibliography
* Baines, Paul & Ferarro, Julian & Rogers, Pat. ''The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing, 1660-1789''. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
* Watson, George. ''The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800''. Cambridge University Press, 1971.
1767 plays
Comedy plays
West End plays
Plays by Thomas Hull
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