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Tate Wilkinson. Portrait of Wilkinson, by Stephen Hewson. Tate Wilkinson (27 October 1739 – 16 November 1803) was an English actor and manager . Life. He was the son of a clergyman and was sent to Harrow . His first attempts at acting were badly received, and it was to his wonderful gift of mimicry that he owed his success.
Overview. Tate Wilkinson. (1739—1803) actor and theatre manager. Quick Reference. (1739–1803) English actor and manager. A highly skilled mimic, Wilkinson was sacked from John Rich's company because of his indiscreet imitations on stage of Peg Woffington. Lacking sensitivity—and possessing an ...
Tate Wilkinson (1739 –1803) The Yorkshire company under Tate Wilkinson’s management from 1766 to 1803 had the best-known circuit in the North with its base in York and theatres in Hull, Leeds, Doncaster, Wakefield, Pontefract and occasionally in Halifax, Sheffield, Beverley, Newcastle and Edinburgh .
The 18th century impersonator who was 'the Jon Culshaw of his day'. Larger than life Tate Wilkinson (1739 –1803) was a Madeira-swilling actor-manager whose talent for mimicry made him the Jon...
Tate Wilkinson. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 248 pages. In addition to being one of the leading theatrical managers and performers in England during the...
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Hanway, Tate Wilkinson often referred to the conduct of his theatrical circuit in Yorkshire as a military campaign, with himself as the general. As the opening quotation shows, he also saw himself as a monarch in his own theatrical realm, with all the powers and difficulties such a role implied. Charles Mathews, who was a great supporter of ...
TATE WILKINSON (1739-1803), English actor and manager, was born on the 27th of October 1739, the son of a clergyman. His first attempts at acting were badly received, and it was to his wonderful gift of mimicry that he owed his success. His imitations, however, naturally gave offence to the important actors and managers whose peculiarities he ...
