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

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