Emily Price Explained
Emily Price was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century. She was a member of the Duke's Company between 1676 and 1682, acting at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London and then joined the merged United Company. She was a friend of the playwright Aphra Behn and appeared in several of her plays.[1] She was billed as Mrs Price.[2]
Selected roles
Bibliography
- Lanier, Henry Wysham. The First English Actresses: From the Initial Appearance of Women on the Stage in 1660 Till 1700. The Players, 1930.
- Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume One, 1660–1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.
- Woodcock, George. Aphra Behn: The English Sappho. Black Rose Books, 1989.
Notes and References
- Woodcock p.91
- Lanier p.72
