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Warren, William the younger
Warren, William the younger (1812–88), American actor, son of the above, who spent most of his professional life at the Boston Museum. He made his first appearance at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, shortly after his father's death, playing Young Norval in Home's Douglas, and then toured for several years and was a member of several good stock companies. He was seldom seen in New York and only once, in 1845, in England. He began his long association with the Museum in 1847, and remained there until his retirement in 1883. In his early days he acted a wide variety of parts, but later specialized in comedy, being particularly admired as Touchstone in As You Like It, Polonius in Hamlet, and Bob Acres and Sir Peter Teazle in Sheridan's The Rivals and The School for Scandal. He appeared also in a number of new plays, which his excellent acting often redeemed from mediocrity, and in 1882 celebrated his stage jubilee by playing Dr Pangloss in the younger Colman's The Heir-at-Law. He was last seen on the stage as Old Eccles in T. W. Robertson's Caste.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Warren, William the younger." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Warren, William the younger." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-WarrenWilliamtheyounger.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Warren, William the younger." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-WarrenWilliamtheyounger.html |
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Peter Warren Dease
Peter Warren Dease , 1788–1863, Canadian explorer. He was in the North West Company before its merger with the Hudson's Bay Company and later was a Hudson's Bay Company trader. He was a member of the party of Sir John Franklin's second arctic expedition. Later he and Thomas Simpson (see under Simpson, Sir George ) explored (1836–39) the coast of the Arctic Ocean in Canada and Alaska from the mouth of the Mackenzie River to Point Barrow. They also mapped the southern shores of Victoria and King William islands. |
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"Peter Warren Dease." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Peter Warren Dease." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Dease-Pe.html "Peter Warren Dease." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Dease-Pe.html |
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