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3 unusual facts about Anthony Leigh


Anthony Leigh

He was in 1683, however, at that theatre the original Bartoline in John Crowne's City Politics, and played Bessus in a revival of A King and No King.

Richard Estcourt used to imitate Leigh's "Spanish Fryar" in the play by Dryden.

Mary Slingsby

Theatre historians have pointed out the difficulty in identifying her roles in the period when Elinor Leigh, wife of Anthony Leigh, was performing as Mrs. Leigh, because the homophones "Lee" and "Leigh" were not consistently spelled at the time.



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