Mr. Goodman the player / John Harold Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, John H. (John Harold), 1935- author.

Series:

University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--England--London--History.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 153 pages).

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964.

Summary:

Famous as an actor with the King's Company in London during the Restoration, Cardell Goodman epitomized one of the most colorful ages in English history. Goodman was admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge at age 13, and, upon graduation, became an actor in the King's Company. To supplement his meager acting income, he took up highway robbery and was captured then pardoned by King Charles. About 1684, he became the lover of Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, former mistress of King Charles, and spent the next ten years living in luxury as her Master of the Horse, occasionally accepting acting roles. In 1696 he became entangled in the Jacobite conspiracy and fled to France. He returned to a remote part of England after the Peace of Ryswick in 1697, and spent the last years of his turbulent, exciting, dangerous life in genteel poverty. John Harold Wilson tells Goodman's remarkable life story with documentation, grace, and wit, using it to illustrate the violence, intrigue, lawlessness, moral laxity, and brilliance of the era's revolt against Puritan sobriety and dullness.

Contents:

Front Matter

Preface

Table of Contents

I Study to Stage

II The King's Company

III The War of the Theatres

IV The Lean Years

V Decline and Fall

VI Barbara

[Illustration]

VII Libels and Lampoons

VIII To Kill a King

IX The Epilogue

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780822975564

0822975564