EDWARD

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• EDWARD KYNASTON (c. 1640-17o6)

KYNASTON (c. 1640-17o6)  , English actor, was born in London and first appeared in Rhodes's company, having been, like Betterton, a clerk in Rhodes's book-shop before he set up a company in the Cockpit in Drury Lane . Kynaston was probably the last and certainly the best of the male actors of female parts, for which his personal beauty admirably fitted him . His last female part was Evadne in The Maid's Tragedy in 1661 with Killigrew's company . In 1665 he was playing important male parts at Covent Garden . He joined Betterton at Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1695, after which he received less important roles, retiring in 1699 . He died in 1706, and was buried on the 18th of January .