Emily Price was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century. She was a member of the Duke's Company between 1676 and 1682, acting at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London and then joined the merged United Company. She was a friend of the playwright Aphra Behn and appeared in several of her plays.[1] She was billed as Mrs Price.[2]

Selected roles

References

  1. Woodcock p.91
  2. Lanier p.72

Bibliography

  • Lanier, Henry Wysham. The First English Actresses: From the Initial Appearance of Women on the Stage in 1660 Till 1700. The Players, 1930.
  • Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume One, 1660–1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.
  • Woodcock, George. Aphra Behn: The English Sappho. Black Rose Books, 1989.
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