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BARRY, ELIZABETH (1658—1713)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 444 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARRY, See also:ELIZABETH (1658—1713) , See also:English actress, of whose See also:early See also:life the details are meagre. At first she was so unsuccessful on the See also:stage as to be more than once dismissed; but she was coached by her See also:lover the See also:earl of See also:Rochester, who had laid a See also:wager that in a See also:short See also:time he would make a first-See also:rate actress of her, and the results confirmed his See also:judgment. Mrs Barry's performance as See also:Isabella, See also:queen of See also:Hungary, in the earl of See also:Orrery's Mustapha, was said to have caused See also:Charles II. and the See also:duke and duchess of See also:York so much delight that the duchess took lessons in English from her, and when she became queen she gave Mrs Barry her See also:coronation See also:robes in which to appear as Elizabeth in See also:Banks's Earl of See also:Essex. Mrs Barry is said to have created over too parts, and she was particularly successful in the plays of See also:Thomas See also:Otway. See also:Betterton says that her acting gave " success to plays that would disgust the most patient reader." See also:Dryden pronounced her " always excellent." See also:Cibber is authority for the statement that it was on her behalf that benefits, which up to that time were reserved for authors, were first established for actors by command of See also:James II. Mrs Barry had a See also:child by See also:Lord Rochester and a second by See also:Sir See also:George See also:Etheredge, both of whom were provided for by their fathers. In 1709 she retired from the stage and died on the 7th of See also:November 1713.

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