Thomas Killigrew (7 February 1612 – 19 March 1683) was an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty, dissolute figure at the court of King...

born at Lothbury, London, the son of William Killigrew and his wife Margery (Mary) Saunders, daughter of Thomas Saunders of Uxbridge, Middlesex. In January...

John Killigrew of Killigrew, by his wife Mary Poltesmore, daughter of Sir Richard Poltesmore, and was the first of the family to hold Arwenack. Thomas Killigrew...

of England Henry Killigrew (disambiguation), several people Sir Robert Killigrew (1580–1633), English courtier and MP Thomas Killigrew (1612–1683), dramatist...

Thomas Killigrew, the younger (February 1657 – 1719) was an English dramatist. Killigrew was the son of Thomas Killigrew, by his second wife, Charlotte...

Mary Woodhouse. He was the brother of the dramatist Thomas Killigrew and of Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon, mistress of the future Charles...

with music). The first theatre on the site was built at the behest of Thomas Killigrew in the early 1660s, when theatres were allowed to reopen during the...

favouring the work of Thomas Killigrew. Though Killigrew was not officially a jester, Samuel Pepys in his famous diary does call Killigrew "The King's fool...

Anne Killigrew (1660–1685) was an English poet and painter, described by contemporaries as "A Grace for beauty, and a Muse for wit." Born in London, she...

Paris. October – Thomas Killigrew and the King's Company stage Killigrew's The Parson's Wedding with an all-female cast. (Killigrew attempts a similar...

earliest theatrical reference to Knepp is from 1664, as being intended by Thomas Killigrew to play the part of Lusetta in his play Thomaso. This means that she...

spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre...

theatre, known as Theatre Royal in Bridges Street, was designed by Thomas Killigrew and built on the site of the present Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It...

Killigrew was a daughter of Sir Robert Killigrew and Mary Woodhouse, and sister of dramatist Thomas Killigrew. She was baptised at St Margaret Lothbury...

"nursery" in London in 1668, and there caught the eye of Thomas Killigrew and was invited to join Killigrew's patent company, the King's Company. Haines soon became...

Thomas Nabbes, Henry Glapthorne, Thomas Killigrew, Sir William Davenant, William Cartwright, Shackerley Marmion, Jasper Mayne, Peter Hausted, Thomas Randolph...

actresses on stage. Specifically, Charles II issued letters patent to Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant, granting them the monopoly right to form two...

Pendennis Castle (1584–98). Simon Killigrew Thomas Killigrew Mary Killigrew, who died unmarried Katherine Killigrew (died 1598), youngest daughter, who...

write in relative security, protected by the anonymous means of print. Thomas Killigrew is an example of a stage playwright who turned to this form of writing...

(Maykov poem), an 1878 poem by Maykov The Princess (Killigrew), a 17th-century play by Thomas Killigrew The Princess (W. S. Gilbert play), an 1870 musical...

of the theatres at the Restoration in 1660. When Charles II allowed Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant to form two theatre companies under royal...

had issue. Thomas Killigrew, 2nd son, died without progeny. Simon Killigrew, 3rd son. Mary Killigrew, eldest daughter. Katherine Killigrew (d.1598) 3rd...

Russell, Countess of Bedford sent Lady Killigrew an invitation, seeing an opportunity to be a peace-maker for Sir Thomas Overbury, writing, "I doubt not but...

was a keen theatre-goer, and promptly gave two royal patents to Sir Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant. During the Renaissance women did not appear...

the Restoration, it belonged to the repertory of the King's Men of Thomas Killigrew, who appear to have performed it with some frequency during their first...

young Gentlewoman of a good fortune" in The Parson's Wedding (1641) by Thomas Killigrew Anne Bradstreet, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up into America, by a...

When the theatres reopened, the play was owned by the King's Men of Thomas Killigrew; it was performed at Drury Lane in 1663. Michael Mohun played Volpone...

dramatist and theatre manager Thomas Killigrew constructed a larger theatre on the same spot, which opened in 1674. Killigrew's theatre lasted nearly 120...

Athens in Terra Australis incognita (1720) by the English dramatist Thomas Killigrew; Relation d'un voyage du Pole Arctique, au Pole Antarctique par le...

rhymed heroic verse, like the stilted tragedies of the Howards and Thomas Killigrew, but it contains comic scenes that are notably bright and fresh. The...