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ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 23 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843) , English actor, was born in Chelsea, and made his first
appearance
  on the stage at Bath in 18o6, and his first London
appearance
  in 18o8. At Covent
Garden
  in 1813, in light comedy and
melodrama
 , he made his first decided success.' He was Pylades to Macready's Orestes in
Ambrose
  Philips's Distressed
Mother
  when Macready made his first appearance at that theatre (1816). He created the parts of Appius
Claudius
  in Sheridan Knowles's Virginius (182o) and of Modus in his Hunchback (1832). In 1827 he organized the company, including Macready and Miss Smithson, which acted Shakespeare in Paris. On his return to London he played Romeo to Fanny Kemble's Juliet (1830). Two of Abbot's melodramas, The Youthful Days of Frederick the
Great
  (1817) and Swedish Patriotism (1819), were produced at Covent
Garden
 . He died in poverty at
Baltimore
 ,
Maryland
 .


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