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WILLIAM BULLOCK (c. 1657-c. 1740)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM BULLOCK (c. 1657-c. 1740)  ,
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English actor, " of
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great
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glee and much comic vivacity," was the
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original Clincher in Farquhar's Constant Couple (1699), Boniface in The Beaux' Stratagem (1707), and
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Sir Francis Courtall in Pavener's Artful Wife (1717) . He played at all the
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London theatres of his time, and in the summer at a booth at Bartholomew
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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
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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
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Half an
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Hour (1716); The Cobbler of Preston; Woman's a Riddle; The Perjurer (1717); and The Traitor (1718) .

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