The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 278 pages of information about The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield.

The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 278 pages of information about The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield.

  Neal, Edmund, “Phaedra and Hippolitus”
  “Non-Juror, The,” Cibber’s
  Norris, an actor

  Oldfield, Captain
  Oldfield, Mrs.
  Oldfield, Anne (Nance)
    birth
    meets Farquhar
    introduced to Vanbrugh,
    joins the stage
    Bath debut
    first stage triumph
    Cibber’s “Careless Husband” her success
    deportment
    as Sylvia in Farquhar’s “Recruiting Officer”
    leaves Drury Lane for the Haymarket
    supplants Mrs. Bracegirdle
    salary at the Haymarket
    ——­ and at Drury Lane
    as Andromache in “Distressed Mother”
    plays Marcia in “Cato”
    meets Alexander Pope
    tragic parts
    rivals produce a riot, her triumph
    as Jane Shore
    adheres to Drury Lane
    takes Sophonisba, praised by Thomson
    meridian lustre
    mistress of A. Maynwaring
    personal attractions
    accepts protection of Marlborough’s nephew
    received at Court
    her natural children
    ancestress of Earls of Cadogan
    sympathy for Richard Savage
    intercedes for his life
    mourned by Savage
    contemporaries
    her equipage
    sweetness and common sense
    retains her bloom
    captivating as Lady Townley
    moved in polite circles
    ill-health, dies in Lower Grosvenor Street
    laid in State in the Jerusalem Chamber
    interred in Westminster Abbey
  Oldfield, Anne, elegy by Richard Savage
  Opera, Italian
  Operatic singers
  Oxford and the drama
    actors contribute to St. Mary’s restoration fund

  Page, Francis
  Pepy’s Diary
  “Perplexed Lovers, The,” Centlivre’s
  Philips, Ambrose
  Players in Queen Anne’s time
  Pope, Alexander
  Porter, Mistress
  Powell, George
  Prince George of Denmark
  Pritchard, Sir William
  “Provoked Husband, The,” Vanbrugh and Cibber’s

  Radcliffe, Dr. 
  “Recruiting Officer, The,” Farquhar’s
  Rich, Christopher
  Rich, John
  Rivers, Lord
  Rogers, Mrs.
  Rowe, Nicholas
  Russell Court Chapel
  Ryan, Lacy

  Sandridge, Dean
  Santlow, Hester
    see also Booth, Mrs.
  Saunders, Mistress
  Savage, Richard
  Schlegel, Augustus Wm. 
  “Scornful Lady, The”
  Shadwell, Thomas
  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
  Side-shows
  “Sir Courtly Nice,” Crown’s
  “Sir Thomas Overbury,” Savage’s
  Skipworth, Sir Thomas
  Smith, an actor
  Spectator, The
  Stage armies
  Stanyan, T.
  Steele, Sir Richard
  Strolling players
  Swift, Dean
  Swiney, Owen

  “Tamerlane,” N. Rowe’s
  “Tartuffe,” Moliere’s
  Theatre and church
    and playgoers
  Theatrical dress
    claptrap, Addison on
    property, Sir R. Steele on
  Theatricals began, Hour
  Thomas, Augustus
  Thomson’s “Sophonisba”
  Thurmond, John
  Toasts
  Toasting glasses
  Tofts, Mrs.
  Tonson, Jacob
  Trumbull, Sir William

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