George_Bright_(actor)
George Bright (actor)
English actor
George Bright was an English stage actor of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. He specialised in playing "comic dullards, fops and bouncy servants".[1] After beginning his career in Dublin he joined the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in 1679 and then became part of the merged United Company in 1682.
- Ajax in Troilus and Cressida by John Dryden (1679)
- Glisten in The Revenge by Aphra Behn (1680)
- Baltazer in The False Count by Aphra Behn (1681)
- Slouch in The Royalist by Thomas D'Urfey (1682)
- Sheriff in The Duke of Guise by John Dryden (1682)
- Farmer in Dame Dobson by Edward Ravenscroft (1683)
- Martin in A Jovial Crew by Richard Brome (1683)
- Howdee in The Northern Lass by Richard Brome (1684)
- Captain Hackum in The Squire of Alsatia by Thomas Shadwell (1688)
- Dullman in The Widow Ranter by Aphra Behn (1689)
- Don Pedro in The Successful Strangers by William Mountfort (1690)
- Dullman in The English Frier by John Crowne (1690)
- Polidas in Amphitryon by John Dryden (1690)
- Cleontes in Distress'd Innocence by Elkanah Settle (1690)
- Waitwell in Sir Anthony Love by Thomas Southerne (1690)
- Sly in Edward III by William Mountfort (1690)
- Maggot in The Scowrers by Thomas Shadwell (1690)
- Old Zachary Bragg in Love for Money by Thomas D'Urfey (1691)
- Monsieur Mass in Bussy D'Ambois by Thomas D'Urfey (1691)
- Bully Bounce in Greenwich Park by William Mountfort (1691)
- Ruffle in The Wives' Excuse by Thomas Southerne (1691)
- Bias in The Marriage-Hater Matched by Thomas D'Urfey (1692)
- Sir Timothy Witless in The Female Virtuosos by Thomas Wright (1693)
- Sir Ruff Rancounter in The Maid's Last Prayer by Thomas Southerne (1693)
- Venture in A Very Good Wife by George Powell (1693)
- Sir Quibble Quere in The Richmond Heiress by Thomas D'Urfey (1693)
- Durzo in The Canterbury Guests by Edward Ravenscroft (1694)
- Sir Nicholas Purflew in The Lover's Luck by Thomas Dilke (1695)
- Justice Merryman in The City Bride by Joseph Harris (1696)
- Old Mr Gerald in The Anatomist by Edward Ravenscroft (1696)
- Grumble in The City Lady by Thomas Dilke (1696)
- Plot in Love's a Jest by Peter Motteux (1696)
- Justice of the Peace in The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh (1697)
- Captain Bownceby in The Pretenders by Thomas Dilke (1698)
- Clodpole in The Amorous Widow by Thomas Betterton (1699)
- Waitwell in The Way of the World by William Congreve (1700)
- Strut in The Ladies Visiting Day by William Burnaby (1701)
- Rosco in The Stolen Heiress by Susanna Centlivre (1702)
- Don Felix in The Mistake by John Vanbrugh (1705)
- Nicholas in The Maid's The Mistress by William Taverner (1708)
- Hughes p.197
- Hughes, Derek. The Theatre of Aphra Behn. Springer, 2000.
- Todd, Janet. The Works of Aphra Behn: v. 6: Complete Plays. Routledge, 2018.
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