GEORGE POWELL (c. 1658-1714)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V22,
Page 223
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:GEORGE See also:POWELL (c. 1658-1714)
, See also:English actor and playwright, was the son of an actor of the same name (d. c
.
1698), with whom, as the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Bakam, he first appeared in 1687, as Emanuel in The See also:Island Princess, See also:Tate's version of See also:Fletcher's See also:play
.
He wrote or adapted See also:Alphonse, King of See also:Naples (1661), Treacherous See also:Brothers (1676), and Very See also:Good Wife (1693), and acted in them and in a See also:long See also:list of contemporary plays almost until his See also:death
.
As a tragedian he succeeded to many of See also:Betterton's parts, but not to his See also:genius
.
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