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Charles II's mistress Nell Gwyn appears with a nipple bared and a saucy look in a 1680 painting but when Sarah Siddons sits for Joshua Reynolds a century later, the actress best known for her Lady Macbeth is all stately gravitas.
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"The First Actresses" offers paintings of 53 thespians in 17th and 18th century Britain—from Nell Gwyn, mistress to King Charles II, who permitted female acting, to Sarah Siddons, posing as the Tragic Muse.
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Disreputable conduct on the part of Sir Thomas, who had affairs with two daughters of the actress Sarah Siddons, apparently contributed to the decline in his artistic standing when the prim Victorians took against his freewheeling morals.
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David Garrick and Sarah Siddons emerged as glittering stars of the stage, transfixing theatergoers, who, unlike their unruly Elizabethan forebears, watched in rapt attention and respectful silence while seated in the dark.
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It was a lengthy tragedy, written entirely in blank verse, and the leading role was played by one of the greatest actresses of her day, Sarah Siddons.
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Soon after, they joined Joseph Younger's company in Liverpool, where Elizabeth met the actress Sarah Siddons, her husband and her younger brother John P. Kemble, who was destined to become a great theatrical actor-manager.
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In history, a “great actress” can turn as stuffy as Bernhardt, Rachel or Sarah Siddons.
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There may have been women who had played Hamlet between me and Sarah Siddons, but I couldn't think of any.
Farthing 2006
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In history, a “great actress” can turn as stuffy as Bernhardt, Rachel or Sarah Siddons.
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In history, a “great actress” can turn as stuffy as Bernhardt, Rachel or Sarah Siddons.
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