1692 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1692.

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John Bowman (1651–1739) was a British stage actor. He began his career in the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre. In 1692 he married Elizabeth Watson, who acted under the name Elizabeth Bowman. He later switched to act at the Drury Lane Theatre. He is also referred to as John Boman.

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John Hodgson was an English stage actor of the late seventeenth century. He joined the United Company in 1688 and his first recorded appearance was in The Treacherous Brothers at Drury Lane in 1690. In 1695 he was one of several actors who broke away to join Thomas Betterton's new company at Lincoln's Inn Fields. His name is sometimes written as Hudson. He was married to the singer Mary Hodgson.

References

  1. Walter Hamilton (1879). The Poets Laureate of England: Being a History of the Office of Poet Laureate, Biographical Notices of Its Holders, and a Collection of the Satires, Epigrams, and Lampoons Directed Against Them. E. Stock. p. 27.
  2. John Richetti (6 January 2005). The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780. Cambridge University Press. p. 477. ISBN   978-0-521-78144-2.
  3. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1894). "Mountfort, William"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 211–213.
  4. Rigg, J. M. (1894). "Mottley, John (1692–1750), dramatist and biographer". Dictionary of National Biography.
  5. Tobias Churton (1 January 2005). The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians, First Freemasons. Weiser Books. pp. 1–. ISBN   978-1-60925-177-2.
  6. Thomas A. Prendergast (12 November 2015). Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 169. ISBN   978-0-8122-9190-2.