Margaret Hughes

Margaret Hughes
Potret Margaret Hughes karya Sir Peter Lely, c. 1670
Lahir	(1630-05-29)29 Mei 1630
Meninggal	1 Oktober 1719(1719-10-01) (umur 89) Eltham, Kent, Kerajaan Britania Raya
Pekerjaan	Aktris
Pasangan	Ruprecht dari Rhein
Anak	Arthur Hughes, Ruperta Howe

Margaret Hughes (29 Mei 1630 – 1 Oktober 1719), juga disebut Peg Hughes atau Margaret Hewes, sering dikreditkan sebagai aktris profesional pertama di panggung Inggris pada 8 Desember 1660.^[1] Hughes adalah nyonya dari Pangeran Rupert dari Rhine, sosok jenderal pada masa Perang Saudara Inggris.

Referensi

1. The national qualification is essential. The earliest kabuki performers in Japan in 1603 were women. An Italian actress was reported as early as 1565–66; see Rennert, Spanish Stage, p. 140. Thomas Coryate, in Coryate's Crudities, noted actresses in Venice in 1611; see Halliday, Shakespeare Companion, p. 22. For amateur precedents, see: Tempe Restored; The Shepherd's Paradise.

Daftar Pustaka

• Gilder, Rosamond. Enter the Actress: The First Women in the Theatre. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1931.
• Halliday, F. E., A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964. Baltimore, Penguin, 1964.
• Highfill, Philip H., Kalman A. Burnim and Edward A. Langhans. Volume 8 of A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.
• Howe, Elizabeth. The First English Actresses: Women and Drama, 1660–1700. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
• Rennert, Hugo Albert. The Spanish Stage in the Time of Lope de Vega. Hispanic Society of America, 1909.
• Spencer, Charles. Prince Rupert: The Last Cavalier. London: Phoenix, 2007. ISBN 9780753824016.
• Thomson, Peter, et al., eds. The Cambridge History of British Drama. 3 Volumes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Wilson, John Harold. All the King's Ladies: Actress of the Restoration. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1958
• Macqueen-Pope, W. Ladies First; the Story of Woman's Conquest of the British Stage. London: Allen, 1952