Betterton, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Betterton managed the Drury Lane theater from 1682 until 1695, at which time he reopened a theater in Lincolns Inn Fields, with...company to the new Haymarket theater, built for them by Sir John...Betterton adopted new ideas in his theaters, especially in regard to...are buried in Westminster Abbey. See R. W. Lowe, Thomas...