A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory

A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory
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Publisher : SIU Press
Total Pages : 552
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ISBN-10 : 0809306921
ISBN-13 : 9780809306923
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Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 3, Cabanel to Cory written by Philip H. Highfill and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes three and four of this monumen­tal work include full entries for all such illustrious names as those of the Cibbers--Colley, Theophilus, and Susanna Maria--Kitty Clive, and Charlotte Charke, George Colman, the Elder, and the Younger, William Davenant, and De Loutherboug. But here also are full entries for dozens of important secondary figures and of minor ones whose stories have never been told, as well as a census (and at least a few recoverable facts) for even the most inconsiderable performers and servants of the theatres. As in the previous volumes in this dis­tinguished series, the accompanying illus­trations include at least one picture of each subject for whom a portrait exists.


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