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Sarah Siddons

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Sarah Siddons (née Kemble; 5 July 1755 – 8 June 1831) was a Welsh-born actress, the best-known tragedienne of the 18th century. [1]

92 relations: Academy Award for Best Picture, All About Eve, Ann Hatton, Bath, Somerset, BBC Radio 4, Bertie Greatheed, Bette Davis, Bibliographical Society of America, Brecon, Bristol, Bristol Old Vic, Celeste Holm, Charles Kemble, Charles Mayne Young, Cork Harbour, County Cork, David Garrick, David Pownall, Desdemona, Douglas (play), Edinburgh, Edmund Burke, Elgin Marbles, Elizabeth Whitlock, Fanny Kemble, Folly tower, George Combe, Georgian architecture, Guy's Cliffe, Harrow Road, Henry Crabb Robinson, Henry Siddons, Hester Thrale, HM Revenue and Customs, Huntington Library, Joanna Baillie, John Home, John Palmer (postal innovator), John Philip Kemble, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Joshua Reynolds, JSTOR, Kemble family, Lady Macbeth, Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud, London Underground, Marylebone, Metropolitan line, Metropolitan Railway, Metropolitan Railway electric locomotives, ..., Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond, National Gallery, Nicholas Rowe (writer), Old Orchard Street Theatre, Ophelia, Paddington Green, London, Pageant of the Masters, Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, Portia (The Merchant of Venice), Pub, Roger Kemble, Rostellan, Royal Opera House, Samuel Johnson, San Marino, California, Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, Sarah Siddons Award, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, St Mary on Paddington Green Church, Stephen Kemble, Tate Britain, The Fair Penitent, The Paragon, Bath, The Theatre, Leeds, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Thomas Campbell (sculptor), Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Tragedy, Venice Preserv'd, Wales, Walter Scott, Warwick, Warwickshire Company of Comedians, Westminster Abbey, William Macready, William Shakespeare, William Windham, York, 15 Minute Drama. Expand index (42 more) »

Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in 1929, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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All About Eve

All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.

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Ann Hatton

Ann Julia Hatton (née Kemble; other married name Curtis; published as Ann of Swansea) (29 April 1764 – 26 December 1838, Swansea), was a popular novelist in Britain in the early 19th century.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Bertie Greatheed

Bertie Greatheed (1759–1826) was an English dramatist.

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Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

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Bibliographical Society of America

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is the oldest learned society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects.

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Brecon

Brecon (Aberhonddu), archaically known as Brecknock, is a market town and community in Powys, Wales, with a population in 2001 of 7,901, increasing to 8,250 at the 2011 census.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Bristol Old Vic

Bristol Old Vic is a British theatre company based at the Theatre Royal, Bristol.

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Celeste Holm

Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film and television actress.

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Charles Kemble

Charles Kemble (25 November 1775 – 12 November 1854) was a British actor.

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Charles Mayne Young

Charles Mayne Young (1777–1856), English actor, was the son of an eminent London surgeon.

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Cork Harbour

Cork Harbour is a natural harbour and river estuary at the mouth of the River Lee in County Cork, Ireland.

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County Cork

County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is a county in Ireland.

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David Garrick

David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson.

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David Pownall

David Pownall FRSL (born 19 May 1938) is a British playwright and author of novels and short stories.

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Desdemona

Desdemona is a character in William Shakespeare's play Othello (c. 1601–1604).

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Douglas (play)

Douglas is a blank verse tragedy by John Home.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann; Edinburgh) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 17309 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, who after moving to London in 1750 served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.

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Elgin Marbles

The Elgin Marbles (/ˈel gin/), also known as the Parthenon Marbles, are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of the architect and sculptor Phidias and his assistants.

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Elizabeth Whitlock

Elizabeth Whitlock (2 April 1761, Warrington, Lancashire – 27 February 1836, Addlestone) was an English actress, a member of the Kemble family of actors.

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Fanny Kemble

Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble (27 November 180915 January 1893) was a notable British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-19th century.

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Folly tower

A folly tower is a tower that has been built as an architectural folly, that is, constructed for ornamental rather than practical reasons.

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George Combe

George Combe (21 October 1788 – 14 August 1858) was a Scottish lawyer and the leader and spokesman of the phrenological movement for more than twenty years.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Guy's Cliffe

Guy's Cliffe (variously spelled with and without an apostrophe and a final "e") is a hamlet on the River Avon and the Coventry Road between Warwick and Leek Wootton in Warwickshire, England, near Old Milverton.

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Harrow Road

The Harrow Road is an ancient route in London which runs from Paddington in a northwesterly direction towards Harrow, northwest London.

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Henry Crabb Robinson

Henry Crabb Robinson (1775–1867) was an English lawyer known as a diarist.

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Henry Siddons

Henry Siddons (4 October 1774 – 12 April 1815) was an English actor and theatrical manager, now remembered as a writer on gesture.

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Hester Thrale

Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage becoming Hester Lynch Piozzi, 27 January 1741 – 2 May 1821) was a Welsh-born diarist, author, and patron of the arts.

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HM Revenue and Customs

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HM Revenue and Customs or HMRC) is a non-ministerial department of the UK Government responsible for the collection of taxes, the payment of some forms of state support and the administration of other regulatory regimes including the national minimum wage.

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Huntington Library

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens (or The Huntington) is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) and located in Los Angeles County in San Marino, California.

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Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie (11 September 176223 February 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for works including Plays on the Passions (three volumes, 1798-1812) and Fugitive Verses (1840).

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John Home

Rev John Home FRSE (13 September 1722 – 4 September 1808) was a Scottish minister, soldier and author.

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John Palmer (postal innovator)

John Palmer of Bath (1742 – 16 August 1818) was a theatre owner and instigator of the British system of mail coaches that was the beginning of the great British post office reforms with the introduction of an efficient mail coach delivery service in Great Britain during the late 18th century.

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John Philip Kemble

John Philip Kemble (1 February 1757 – 26 February 1823) was an English actor.

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits.

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JSTOR

JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library founded in 1995.

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Kemble family

Kemble is the name of a family of English actors, who reigned over the English stage for many decades.

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Lady Macbeth

Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth (c.1603–1607).

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Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud

Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud (29 January 1858 – 5 February 1919) was a French sculptor.

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London Underground

The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground, or by its nickname the Tube) is a public rapid transit system serving London and some parts of the adjacent counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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Marylebone

Marylebone (or, both appropriate for the Parish Church of St. Marylebone,,, or) is an affluent inner-city area of central London, England, located within the City of Westminster and part of the West End.

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Metropolitan line

The Metropolitan line (colloquially known as the Met) is a London Underground line that runs between in the City of London and and in Buckinghamshire, with branches to in Hertfordshire and in the western London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Metropolitan Railway

The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west from the capital's financial heart in the City to what were to become the Middlesex suburbs.

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Metropolitan Railway electric locomotives

Metropolitan Railway electric locomotives were used on London's Metropolitan Railway with conventional carriage stock.

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Murrough O'Brien, 1st Marquess of Thomond

Sir Murrough O'Brien, 10th Baron of Inchiquin, 5th Baron O'Brien of Burren, 1st Baron Thomond of Taplow, 5th Earl of Inchiquin, 1st Marquess of Thomond KP, PC (Ire) (1726 – 10 February 1808), known from 1777 to 1800 as the 5th Earl of Inchiquin, was an Irish peer, soldier and politician.

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National Gallery

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London.

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Nicholas Rowe (writer)

Nicholas Rowe (20 June 1674 – 6 December 1718), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer, was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1715.

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Old Orchard Street Theatre

The Old Orchard Street Theatre in Bath, Somerset, England was built as a provincial theatre before becoming a Roman Catholic Church and since 1865 has been a Masonic Hall.

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Ophelia

Ophelia is a character in William Shakespeare's drama Hamlet.

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Paddington Green, London

Paddington Green is a green space, conservation area and geographic location in Westminster located off Edgware Road and adjacent to Westway.

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Pageant of the Masters

The Pageant of the Masters is an annual festival held by the Festival of Arts in Laguna Beach, California.

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Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven

Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven (29 April 16861 January 1742), styled The Honourable Peregrine Bertie between 1686 and 1704, Lord Willoughby de Eresby between 1704 and 1715 and Marquess of Lindsey between 1715 and 1723, was a British nobleman and statesman.

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Portia (The Merchant of Venice)

Portia is the heroine of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

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Pub

A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.

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Roger Kemble

Roger Kemble (1 March 1721 – 6 December 1802) was an English theatre manager, strolling player and actor.

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Rostellan

Rostellan is a townland (rural district) in the civil parish of the same name in County Cork, Ireland.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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San Marino, California

San Marino is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, incorporated on April 12, 1913 The city is located in the San Rafael Hills.

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Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse

Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse is a 1784 oil painting by Joshua Reynolds.

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Sarah Siddons Award

The Sarah Siddons Society is an American non-profit organization founded in 1952 by prominent Chicago theatre patrons with the goal of promoting excellence in the theatre.

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Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, known as the Hellenic Society, was founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art and archaeology in the Ancient, Byzantine and Modern periods.

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St Mary on Paddington Green Church

St Mary on Paddington Green is an Anglican church in the Parish of Little Venice, London and forms part of Paddington Green conservation area.

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Stephen Kemble

George Stephen Kemble (21 April 1758 – 5 June 1822) was a successful British theatre manager, actor, and writer, and a member of the famous Kemble family.

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Tate Britain

Tate Britain (known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery) is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London.

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The Fair Penitent

The Fair Penitent is Nicholas Rowe's stage adaptation of the tragedy The Fatal Dowry, the Philip Massinger and Nathan Field collaboration first published in 1632.

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The Paragon, Bath

The Paragon in the Walcot area of Bath, Somerset, England is a street of Georgian houses which have been designated as listed buildings.

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The Theatre, Leeds

The Theatre in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, was a theatre for summer shows, built in 1771 by Tate Wilkinson and redeveloped in 1867.

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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Thomas Campbell (sculptor)

Thomas Campbell (1 May 1790 – 4 February 1858) was a Scottish sculptor in the early 19th century.

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Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough FRSA (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

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Thomas Lawrence

Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA FRS (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was a leading English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. Lawrence was a child prodigy. He was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper. At the age of ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits. At eighteen he went to London and soon established his reputation as a portrait painter in oils, receiving his first royal commission, a portrait of Queen Charlotte, in 1790. He stayed at the top of his profession until his death, aged 60, in 1830. Self-taught, he was a brilliant draughtsman and known for his gift of capturing a likeness, as well as his virtuoso handling of paint. He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, a full member in 1794, and president in 1820. In 1810 he acquired the generous patronage of the Prince Regent, was sent abroad to paint portraits of allied leaders for the Waterloo chamber at Windsor Castle, and is particularly remembered as the Romantic portraitist of the Regency. Lawrence's love affairs were not happy (his tortuous relationships with Sally and Maria Siddons became the subject of several books) and, in spite of his success, he spent most of life deep in debt. He never married. At his death, Lawrence was the most fashionable portrait painter in Europe. His reputation waned during Victorian times, but has since been partially restored.

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Thomas Otway

Thomas Otway (3 March 1652 – 14 April 1685) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for Venice Preserv'd, or A Plot Discover'd (1682).

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Thomas Southerne

Thomas Southerne (1660 – 26 May 1746) was an Irish dramatist.

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Tragedy

Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.

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Venice Preserv'd

Venice Preserv'd is an English Restoration play written by Thomas Otway, and the most significant tragedy of the English stage in the 1680s.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, poet and historian.

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Warwick

Warwick is the county town of Warwickshire, England.

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Warwickshire Company of Comedians

The Warwickshire Company of Comedians, also known as Mr Ward's Company of Comedians and after 1767 as Mr Kemble's Company of Comedians, was a theatre company established by John Ward in Birmingham, England in the 1740s, touring throughout the West Midlands region and surrounding counties over subsequent decades.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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William Macready

William Charles Macready (3 March 1793 – 27 April 1873) was an English actor.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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William Windham

William Windham PC, PC (Ire) (– 4 June 1810) was a British Whig statesman.

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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15 Minute Drama

15 Minute Drama, previously known as Woman's Hour Drama, is a BBC Radio 4 Arts and Drama production.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Siddons

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