A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Volume 9, Kickill to Machin: Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, ... Dictionary of Actors & Actresses, 1660-1800) - Hardcover

Highfill Jr PhD, Professor Philip H; Burnim PhD, Professor Kalman A; Langhans, Edward A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809311291 ISBN 13: 9780809311293

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984

Synopsis

Among the multitude of theater people to appear in Volume 9 is Mrs. Knepp, whose very existence engendered the green-eyed monster, jealousy, in the bosom of Mrs. Samuel Pepys—and with good reason, as Pepys’ diary shows. Mrs. Knepp, a “most excellent, mad­humoured thing,” left her husband and moved in with the actor Joe Haines. Her death bearing his child elicited this la­ment and tribute from Haines:

 

And Pray let His Matie: too

    understand

How sad I have been in merry

    Scotland

To Loose Mrs: Nep that inchanting

    Dear Lump

That Fountaine of Love so juicy so

    Plump

That delicate Compound of Spiritt &

    Rump

About this title

About the Author

Philip Highfill, Jr., is Professor of En­glish at George Washington University.

 

Kalman A. Burnim is Professor of Drama at Tufts University.

 

Edward A. Langhans is Professor of Drama and Theater at the University of Hawaii.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809311291
• ISBN 13: 9780809311293
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420