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Andrew Pennycuicke

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With the closure of the theatres (which Pennycuicke himself termed "the absurdity of times"), many actors had to find other means of earning a living. Pennycuicke made the switch from actor to
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1638 – 1658) was a mid-seventeenth-century actor and publisher; he was responsible for publishing a number of plays of
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A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated with the Public Representation of Plays in England Before 1642,
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staged a late revival of the Davenport play, in 1638–39, while the Massinger work belonged to the
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What little is known of Pennycuicke's acting career comes from his own publications. In his edition of
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who took women's roles, and a hired man rather than a sharer in any company. (
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and of many actors and theatre men of the era, including
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English Renaissance drama
Robert Davenport
English Civil War
Philip Massinger
The City Madam
boy player
Queen Henrietta's Men
King's Men
stationer
Alexander Gough
William Cartwright
The Fatal Contract
William Heminges
King John and Matilda
Robert Davenport
The Sun's Darling
Thomas Dekker
John Ford
The City Madam
Philip Massinger
St. Giles in the Fields
Cockpit Theatre
William Beeston
Theophilus Bird
G. E. Bentley
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