Online Encyclopedia
Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
BARRY, SPRANGER (1719-1777)
Online EncyclopediaEncyclopedia Home :: BAR-BEC
del.icio.us it!
|
See also:BARRY, SPRANGER (1719-1777) , See also:British actor, was See also:born in See also:Dublin on the 23rd of See also:November 1719, the son of a silversmith, to whose business he was brought up. His first See also:appearance on the See also:stage was at the Smock See also:Alley See also:theatre on the 5th of See also:February 1744, and his engagement at once increased its prosperity. His first See also:London appearance was made in 1746 as Othello at See also:Drury See also:Lane. Here his talents were speedily recognized, and in See also:Hamlet and See also:Macbeth he alternated with See also:Garrick, arousing the latter's See also:jealousy by his success as Romeo. This resulted in his leaving, Drury Lane for Covent See also:Garden in 1'750, accompanied by Mrs See also:Cibber, his Juliet. Both houses now at once put on Romeo and Juliet for a See also:series of See also:rival performances, and Barry's impersonation was preferred by the critics to Garrick's. In 1758 Barry built the See also:Crow See also:Street theatre, Dublin, and later a new theatre in See also:Cork, but he was not successful as a manager and returned to London to See also:play at the Haymarket, then under the management of See also:Foote. As his second wife, he married in 1768 the actress Mrs Dancer (1734-1801), and he and Mrs Barry played under Garrick's management, Barry appearing in 1767, after ten years' See also:absence from the stage, in Othello, his greatest See also:part. In 1794 they both moved to Covent Garden, where Barry remained until his See also:death on the loth of See also:January 1777. He was a singularly handsome See also:man, with the See also:advantage of height which Garrick lacked. His second wife, See also:ANN STREET BARRY, was born in See also:Bath in 1734, the daughter of an See also:apothecary. See also:Early in See also:life she married an actor of the name of Dancer, and it was as Mrs Dancer that she made her first recorded appearance in 1758 as Cordelia to Spranger Barry's See also:Lear at the Crow Street theatre. During the next nine years she played all the leading tragic parts, but. without any See also:great success, and it was not until she came to Drury Lane with Barry that her reputation advanced to the high point at which it afterwards stood. After his death, she remained at Covent Garden and married a man much younger than herself, named See also:Crawford, being first billed as Mrs Crawford in 1778. Her last appearance is said to have been as See also:Lady See also:Randolph in See also:Douglas at Covent Garden in 1798. This part, and that of Desdemona, were among her great impersonations; in both she was considered by some critics See also:superior to Mrs See also:Siddons, who expressed her fear of her in one of her letters. She died on the 29th of November 18or and was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click, and select "copy." Then paste it into your website, email, or other HTML. Site content, images, and layout Copyright © 2006 - Net Industries, worldwide. |
|
|
[back] BARRY, SIR REDMOND (1813-188o) |
[next] BARSI |