Mary Corbett Explained

Mary Corbett was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century. She was a member of the King's Company, based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She appears to have left the company around the time of the merger creating the new United Company.^[1] Her name is sometimes written as Mary Corbet.

Selected roles

• Mrs Dainty Fidget in The Country Wife by William Wycherley (1675)
• King Andrew in Psyche Debauched by Thomas Duffet (1675)
• Melesinda in Aureng-zebe by John Dryden (1675)
• Narcissa in Gloriana by Nathaniel Lee (1676)
• Clevly in The Man of Newmarket by Edward Howard (1678)
• Monima in Mithridates, King of Pontus by Nathaniel Lee (1678)
• Sabina in Trick for Trick by Thomas D'Urfey (1678)
• Gratiana in Sir Barnaby Whigg by Thomas D'Urfey (1681)
• Countess of Nottingham in The Unhappy Favourite by John Banks (1681)

Bibliography

• Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800:. SIU Press, 1982.
• 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.

Notes and References

1. Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.486-487