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Moll Davis. Moll Davis, Sir Peter Lelyn maalaus, noin vuodelta 1665. Moll Davis, alkuperäiseltä nimeltään Mary Davis tai Mary Davys (noin 1648 tai 1651 - 1708) oli englantilainen näyttelijä, laulaja, kurtisaani ja kuningas Kaarle II :n rakastajatar. Davisin elämästä tiedetään lähinnä Samuel Pepysin päiväkirjojen ansiosta.
Moll Davis apparently began her stage career in 1660. John Downes, prompter at Lincoln’s Inn Fields from the 1660s and author of Roscius Anglicanus, or an Historical Review of the Stage published in 1708, named her as one of Sir William Davenant’s four ‘Principal Actresses’ whom ‘he boarded at his own House’ when he formed his company.
Mary "Moll" Davis (ca. 1648 - 1708) was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, singer and actress who became one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England. Davis was born around 1648 in Westminster and was said by Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, to be "a bastard of Collonell Howard, my Lord Barkeshire" - probably meaning Thomas Howard, third Earl of Berkshire.[1] During ...
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17 de jun. de 2016 · This week we’re learning about Moll Davis. Moll Davis. Mary “Moll” Davis: 1648 (England) – 1708 (England) Famous diarist, Samuel Pepys said of Moll that she was “a bastard of Collonell Howard, my Lord Barkeshire.”. In the 1660’s Moll was an actress in the Duke’s Theatre Company as was called “the most impertinent slut in the ...
Charles was already enamoured with Moll Davis, a fellow actress but, on Nell’s return to London at the end of 1667, Buckingham saw an opportunity to dangle another mistress under the king’s nose. Negotiations began: Nell suggested that she would need £500 per year to be kept as the king’s mistress, but this was rejected as too expensive - and so, as quickly as they began, the ...
3 de may. de 2024 · Moll Davis, the leading coquette of the Duke's company, could not match Nell Gwynn in comedic skills; where Nell was spontaneous and witty, Moll was simply coarse. But she was the better dancer of the two. The second-rate poet Richard Flecknoe, who disapproved of theatre-folk for their loose morals, nevertheless gave Moll credit for her talent:
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