Doggett, Thomas

Doggett, Thomas

▪ English actor
born c. 1670, , Dublin, Ire.
died , September/October 1721, London, Eng.

      English actor who excelled in low-comedy parts and is best remembered as a member of a famous actor-manager triumvirate of Cibber, Doggett, and Wilks at the Drury Lane Theatre, London.

      Doggett is said to have begun his acting career about 1691 in the provinces, appearing in London some years later. William Congreve (Congreve, William) so admired Doggett's acting that he wrote him the parts of Fondlewife in The Old Batchelour and Ben in Love for Love. For a while Doggett managed the Drury Lane Theatre with Colley Cibber and Robert Wilks, but the partnership broke up in a quarrel over politics. He wrote a comedy, The Country Wake (1696), that was successfully staged at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre and later revived by Cibber in 1711.

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