Elizabeth Cox
Cox, Elizabeth (fl. 1671–1688), actress
About Elizabeth Cox
Lived 1671 – 1688 (aged 16–17).
Elizabeth "Betty" Cox was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century.
Life Her debut was in March 1671 when she acted Lydia in William Wycherley's Love in a Wood, for the King's Company, based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She left the stage in 1675 but returned briefly in 1682.
Selected roles Lydia in Love in a Wood by William Wycherley (1671) Violetta in The Assignation by John Dryden (1672) Palmrya in Marriage à la mode by John Dryden (1672) Octavia in Nero by Nathaniel Lee (1674) Constantia in The Amorous Old Woman by Thomas Duffet (1674) Desdemona in Othello by William Shakespeare (1675) Panthea in A King and No King by John Fletcher (1675) Indamora in Aureng-zebe by John Dryden (1675) Sophonisba in Sophonisba by Nathaniel Lee (1675) Artemira in The Heir of Morocco by Elkanah Settle (1682)
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Who was Elizabeth Cox?
Cox, Elizabeth (fl. 1671–1688), actress
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Elizabeth Cox was born in 1671.
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Elizabeth Cox died in 1688.
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· DBpedia: Elizabeth Cox (actress)
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