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GEORGE POWELL (c. 1658-1714)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 223 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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