John Whitfield (actor) explained

John Whitfield (1752–1814) was a British stage actor.^[1]

He was part of the Covent Garden and Drury Lane companies, playing over two hundred roles. He often appeared alongside his wife Mary Whitfield.^[2]

Selected roles

• Agenor in Cleonice, Princess of Bithynia by John Hoole (1775)
• Edric in Percy by Hannah More (1777)
• Sir Henry Lovewit in Know Your Own Mind by Arthur Murphy (1777)
• Earl of Surrey in Alfred by John Home (1778)
• Villers in The Belle's Stratagem by Hannah Cowley (1780)
• Don Garcia in A Bold Stroke for a Husband by Hannah Cowley (1783)
• Camillo in Julia by Robert Jephson (1787)
• Nicrates in The Fate of Sparta by Hannah Cowley (1788)
• De Courcy in The Haunted Tower by James Cobb (1789)
• Lupercio in Marcella by William Hayley (1789)
• Woodville in The Wheel of Fortune by Richard Cumberland (1795)
• Redwald in Edwy and Elgiva by Fanny Burney (1795)
• Wortimerus in Vortigern and Rowena by William Henry Ireland (1796)
• Earling in False Impressions by Richard Cumberland (1797)
• Delville in Laugh When You Can by Frederick Reynolds (1798)
• Sir Henry Netterville in The Eccentric Lover by Richard Cumberland (1798)
• Malcour in Folly as it Flies by Frederick Reynolds (1801)
• Melchior in Alfonso, King of Castile by Matthew Lewis (1801)

Bibliography

• Cox, Jeffrey N. & Gamer, Michael. The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama. Broadview Press, 2003.
• Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. SIU Press, 1973.
• Straub, Kristina, G. Anderson, Misty and O'Quinn, Daniel. The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama. Taylor & Francis, 2017.

Notes and References

1. The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama p.LXV
2. Cox & Gamer p.426