Elizabeth Cox (actress)
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Elizabeth "Betty" Cox was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century.
Life
Her debut was in March 1671 when she acted Lydia in William Wycherley's Love in a Wood, for the King's Company,[1] based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[2] She left the stage in 1675 but returned briefly in 1682.
Selected roles
- Lydia in Love in a Wood by William Wycherley (1671)
- Violetta in The Assignation by John Dryden (1672)
- Palmrya in Marriage à la mode by John Dryden (1672)
- Octavia in Nero by Nathaniel Lee (1674)
- Constantia in The Amorous Old Woman by Thomas Duffet (1674)
- Desdemona in Othello by William Shakespeare (1675)
- Panthea in A King and No King by John Fletcher (1675)
- Indamora in Aureng-zebe by John Dryden (1675)
- Sophonisba in Sophonisba by Nathaniel Lee (1675)
- Artemira in The Heir of Morocco by Elkanah Settle (1682)
References
- ^ "Cox, Elizabeth (fl. 1671–1688), actress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67759. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 17 November 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Highfill, Burnim & Langhans pp.17–18
Bibliography
- Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800:. SIU Press, 1982.
- Lanier, Henry Wysham. The First English Actresses: From the Initial Appearance of Women on the Stage in 1660 Till 1700. The Players, 1930.
- Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume One, 1660–1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.
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