Carey Perin
Carey Perin (occasionally written as Perrin) was an English stage actor of the seventeenth century. He was a long-standing member of the King's Company based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[1] He then joined the merged United Company in 1682. His last known role was in Thomas Southerne's The Maid's Last Prayer.
Selected roles[edit]
- Cicco in The Amorous Old Woman by Thomas Duffett (1674)
- Meleager in The Rival Queens by Nathaniel Lee (1677)
- Zannazarro in Wits Led by the Nose by William Chamberlayne (1677)
- Plodwell in The Man of Newmarket by Edward Howard (1678)
- Physician in Trick for Trick Thomas D'Urfey (1678)
- Sir Geoffrey Jolt in The Rambling Justice by John Leanerd (1678)
- Old Gentlewoman in The Country Innocence by John Leanerd (1678)
- Benedick in Sir Barnaby Whigg by Thomas D'Urfey (1681)
- Meroin in The Heir of Morocco by Elkanah Settle (1682)
- Labienus in Constantine the Great by Nathaniel Lee (1683)
- Longmore in The Devil of a Wife by Thomas Jevon (1686)
- Christian in The Maid's Last Prayer by Thomas Southerne (1693)
References[edit]
- ^ Wilson p.23
Bibliography[edit]
- Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume One, 1660–1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.
- Wilson, John Harold. Mr. Goodman the Player. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964.
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