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GEORGE POWELL (c. 1658-1714)

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GEORGE
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POWELL (c. 1658-1714)  ,
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English actor and playwright, was the son of an actor of the same name (d. c . 1698), with whom, as the
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king of Bakam, he first appeared in 1687, as Emanuel in The
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Island Princess,
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Tate's version of
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Fletcher's
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play . He wrote or adapted
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Alphonse, King of
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Naples (1661), Treacherous
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Brothers (1676), and Very
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Good Wife (1693), and acted in them and in a
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long
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list of contemporary plays almost until his
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death . As a tragedian he succeeded to many of
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Betterton's parts, but not to his
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genius .

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