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HART, CHARLES (d. 1683)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 30 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HART, See also:CHARLES (d. 1683) , See also:English actor, See also:grandson of See also:Shakespeare's See also:sister See also:Joan, is first heard of as playing See also:women's parts at the Blackfriars' See also:theatre as an apprentice of See also:Richard See also:Robinson. In the See also:Civil See also:War he was a See also:lieutenant of See also:horse in See also:Prince See also:Rupert's See also:regiment, and after the See also:king's defeat he played surreptitiously at the See also:Cockpit and at See also:Holland See also:House and other noblemen's residences. After the Restoration he is known to have been in 166o the See also:original Dorante-in The Mistaken Beauty, adapted from See also:Corneille's Le Menteur. In 1663 he went to the Theatre Royal in See also:Killigrew's See also:company, with which he remained until 1682, taking leading parts in See also:Dryden's, See also:Jonson's and See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher's plays. He is highly spoken of by contemporaries in such Shakespearian parts as Othello and See also:Brutus. He is often mentioned by See also:Pepys. See also:Betterton praised him, and would not himself See also:play the See also:part of Hotspur until after Hart's retirement. He died in 1683 and was buried on the loth of See also:August. Hart is said to have been the first See also:lover of Nell See also:Gwyn, and to have trained her for the See also:stage.

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