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William Cartwright (actor)

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95: 22: 349:. The collection comprised 239 portraits, plus drawings, prints, books, and manuscripts; Cartwright also willed the College money (£400 of "broad old gold") and even personal effects ("two silver tankards, damask linen, an Indian quilt, and a Turkey carpet"). The portrait collection included public figures like Sir 60:
William Cartwright the younger was about eighty years old when he died; he was therefore born around 1606 or 1607. Nothing is known of his early life; it is reasonable to assume that he began his stage career under his father's tutelage. He was included with his father on a 1635 list of actors;
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Disputes over Cartwright's last will and testament, between his servants and the College, generated an extensive legal record. Cartwright's will mentions that he was childless; if he and any of his three wives had offspring, they did not survive him.
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The parish records of St. Giles in the Fields show that he married his first wife, Elisabeth Cooke, on 1 May 1633 — and his second wife, Andria Robins, just three years later, on 28 April 1636.
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Cartwright remained with the United Company after 1682, until the end of his acting career. He was active even at an advanced age; with the United Company he played Cacafogo in
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Cartwright's stage career revived with the re-opening of the theatres in 1660. He was one of the thirteen actors who were the original "sharers" (partners) in the
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Cartwright's second wife Andria was buried on 12 May 1652. He married Jane Hodgson, his third wife, on 19 November 1654.
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In this era, booksellers also functioned as publishers; but evidence of only one publication by Cartwright is extant. In
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among other actors; and personal items — pictures of Cartwright, his father, and his first and third wives.
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Cartwright was a collector as well as an actor and bookseller. At his death he willed his collection to
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A Dictionary of Actors and of Others Associated with the Representation of Plays in England Before 1642
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Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, "New Light of English Acting Companies in 1646, 1648, and 1660,"
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organized that troupe. Cartwright remained with the company until it was absorbed into the
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Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Muniments of Alleyn's College of God's Gift at Dulwich
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Given his connection with Dulwich, Cartwright was likely also responsible for donating
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Cartwright performed a range of roles with the King's Company, including:
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or bookseller; his shop was in Turnstile Alley in the neighborhood of
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to distinguish him from his father, another William Cartwright (
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Cartwright received a minor mention in the anti-Dryden satire
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1598 – 1636), an actor of the previous generation.
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Index


Caroline era
Restoration
fl.
King's Revels Men
Historia Histrionica
1699
Salisbury Court Theatre
Queen Henrietta's Men

the theatres were closed
stationer
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Andrew Pennycuicke
Alexander Gough
1658
Thomas Heywood
Edward Alleyn
King's Company
Thomas Killigrew
United Company
1682
Falstaff
Othello
Jonson's
Volpone
The Alchemist
Epicene
Beaumont and Fletcher
A King and No King

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