WILLIAM

See also:

• WILLIAM BULLOCK (c. 1657-c. 1740)

BULLOCK (c. 1657-c. 1740)  , English actor, " of great glee and much comic vivacity," was the original Clincher in Farquhar's Constant Couple (1699), Boniface in The Beaux' Stratagem (1707), and Sir Francis Courtall in Pavener's Artful Wife (1717) . He played at all the London theatres of his time, and in the summer at a booth at Bartholomew Fair . He had three sons, all actors, of whom the eldest was Christopher Bullock (c . 169o-1724), who at Drury Lane, the Haymarket and Lincoln's Inn Fields displayed " a considerable versatility of talent." Christopher created a few original parts in comedies and farces of which he was the author or adapter: —A Woman's Revenge (1715); Slip; Adventures of Half an Hour (1716); The Cobbler of Preston; Woman's a Riddle; The Perjurer (1717); and The Traitor (1718) .