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Jun 26, 2024 · The cross-dressing actress Charlotte Charke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis Court at St. James's, Westminster, presenting adaptations of Shakespeare as well as plays by herself, her father Colley Cibber, and her friend Henry Fielding.
6 days ago · Charlotte, a stingray who took the internet by storm earlier this year when she reportedly became pregnant without the presence of a male, has died, according to the aquarium in which she lived.
Jun 25, 2024 · The course will explore the way in which, over the course of the century, eighteenth-century thinkers increasingly assigned gender to biological sex and made homosexual behaviours into identity categories, making them definitive of personhood.
2 days ago · Additionally, refugees from Drury Lane's and Covent Gardens's internal struggles would show up at the theatre, and thus Charlotte Charke would act there in a parody of her father, Colley Cibber, one of the owners and managers of Drury Lane.
6 days ago · Charlotte the stingray, whose mysterious pregnancy grabbed headlines earlier this year and earned her a legion of online fans, has died, according to the Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO, the...
2 days ago · Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures.
Jun 13, 2024 · Author portrait from A narrative of the life of Mrs Charlotte Charke. Charlotte Charke (1713–60) lived and worked as a man for much of her life, defying some of the career limitations for women in eighteenth-century England.
