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Lacy Ryan, English actor, appeared at the Haymarket Theatre about 1709.
Mary Kent was an English actress, whose career lasted from 1692 to 1718, and the wife of Drury Lane actor Thomas Kent. Her dates of birth and death are not known. Mary Kent appeared in many playbills from 1692 onwards in London, playing minor parts in the United Company until the company's tumultuous breakup in 1695. She and her husband remained with the depleted parent troupe when the senior actors walked out to set up their own cooperative company, and during the consequent brief actor shortage at Drury Lane, she played more important parts, notably Flareit in Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift and young Tom Fashion in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse in 1697. This role came at a time when it was common for boys to be portrayed by actresses and her casting was described as perhaps "an attempt to defuse the homosexual suggestions in his relationship with Coupler."
Robert Wilks was a British actor and theatrical manager who was one of the leading managers of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in its heyday of the 1710s. He was, with Colley Cibber and Thomas Doggett, one of the "triumvirate" of actor-managers that was denounced by Alexander Pope and caricatured by William Hogarth as leaders of the decline in theatrical standards and degradation of the stage's literary tradition.
Lisle's Tennis Court was a building off Portugal Street in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. Originally built as a real tennis court, it was used as a playhouse during two periods, 1661–1674 and 1695–1705. During the early period, the theatre was called Lincoln's Inn Fields Playhouse, also known as The Duke's Playhouse, The New Theatre or The Opera. The building was demolished and replaced by a purpose-built theatre for a third period, 1714–1728. The tennis court theatre was the first public playhouse in London to feature the moveable scenery that would become a standard feature of Restoration theatres.
Christopher Bullock (1690–1722) was a British stage actor and dramatist.
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Jane Rogers was a British stage actress.
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John Ogden was a British stage actor of the eighteenth century.
John Egleton (1698-1727) was a British stage actor.
Jane Egleton was a British stage actress of the eighteenth century associated with John Rich's company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.
Henry Giffard (1694–1772) was a British stage actor and theatre manager.
William Mills (1701-1750) was a British stage actor.
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Jane Rogers was an English stage actress. To distinguish her from her daughter she is sometimes referred to as Jane Rogers the Elder.
John Corey was an English stage actor and playwright of the eighteenth century. His name is sometime written as John Cory.
Richard Diggs was a British stage actor.
Elizabeth Willis (c.1669-1739) was a British stage actress.
Mary Willis was a British stage actress of the eighteenth century.
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