Mary Corbett
English actress
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Mary Corbett was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century. She was a member of the King's Company, based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She appears to have left the company around the time of the merger creating the new United Company.[1] Her name is sometimes written as Mary Corbet.
Selected roles
- Mrs Dainty Fidget in The Country Wife by William Wycherley (1675)
- King Andrew in Psyche Debauched by Thomas Duffet (1675)
- Melesinda in Aureng-zebe by John Dryden (1675)
- Narcissa in Gloriana by Nathaniel Lee (1676)
- Clevly in The Man of Newmarket by Edward Howard (1678)
- Monima in Mithridates, King of Pontus by Nathaniel Lee (1678)
- Sabina in Trick for Trick by Thomas D'Urfey (1678)
- Gratiana in Sir Barnaby Whigg by Thomas D'Urfey (1681)
- Countess of Nottingham in The Unhappy Favourite by John Banks (1681)
