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Old and New London
… press them for sale upon his aristocratic friends. Thomas Betterton, the actor, and friend of Pope, was born in this …
Old and New London
… wonderful in it. The Duke of Argyll says he is superior to Betterton." Gray the poet, in an extant letter, says, "Did I …
Old and New London
… play, and well done; but above all that I ever saw, Betterton do the Bondman the best. "1661.After dinner I went … he played Othello, by the king's command, and rivalled Betterton's Hamlet at the other house. He created the part of … by his dignified impersonation of kings and tyrants. Betterton, the greatest of all the Charles II. actors, also …
Survey of London
… and though done by the Duke's people, yet having neither Betterton nor his wife, and the whole thing done ill, and …
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