Elizabeth "Betty" Cox was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century.

Life

Her debut was in March 1671 when she acted Lydia in William Wycherley's Love in a Wood, for the King's Company,[1] based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[2] She left the stage in 1675 but returned briefly in 1682.

Selected roles

References

  1. ^ "Cox, Elizabeth (fl. 1671–1688), actress". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67759. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 17 November 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Highfill, Burnim & Langhans pp.17–18

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