Emily Price

Emily Price was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century. She was a member of the Duke's Company between 1676 and 1682, acting at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London and then joined the merged United Company. She was a friend of the playwright Aphra Behn and appeared in several of her plays. She was billed as Mrs Price.

Selected roles

• Christina in Squire Oldsapp by Thomas D'Urfey (1678)
• Helena in The Destruction of Troy by John Banks (1678)
• Lucretia in Sir Patient Fancy by Aphra Behn (1678)
• Violante in The Counterfeits by John Leanerd (1678)
• Camilla in Friendship in Fashion by Thomas Otway (1678)
• Edraste in The Loyal General by Nahum Tate (1679)
• Adorna in Caesar Borgia by Nathaniel Lee (1679)
• Sylvia in The Soldier's Fortune by Thomas Otway (1680)
• Diana in The Revenge by Aphra Behn (1680)
• Priscilla in Mr Turbulent by Anonymous (1680)
• Security's Wife in Cuckold's Haven by Nahum Tate (1685)
• Hippolita in A Commonwealth of Women by Thomas D'Urfey (1685)
• Jane in The Devil of a Wife by Thomas Jevon (1686)

References

Bibliography

• Lanier, Henry Wysham. The First English Actresses: From the Initial Appearance of Women on the Stage in 1660 Till 1700. The Players, 1930.
• Van Lennep, W. The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume One, 1660–1700. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.
• Woodcock, George. Aphra Behn: The English Sappho. Black Rose Books, 1989.