Detail from "Damon and Phillida Reconciled: A Scene from Colley Cibber’s ‘Damon and Phillida’" in which Charke portrayed the character Damon. Painted by William Jones in 1740.
Born
13 January 1713
London, England, United Kingdom
Died
6 April 1760 (1760-04-07) (aged 47)
London, England, United Kingdom
Nationality
British
Occupation
Actress
Parent(s)
Colley Cibber and Catherine Cibber.
Charlotte Charke (née Cibber, also Charlotte Secheverell, aka Charles Brown) was an English actress, playwright, novelist, and autobiographer. She began acting at the age of seventeen in breeches roles, and took to wearing male clothing off stage as well, performing and being publicly known as "Charles Brown" from 1741. Her later career and her writings were conducted under her own name, "Mrs. Charlotte Charke", and identified her as the daughter of Colley Cibber. After being unsuccessful in a series of jobs associated with men at the time, such as valet, sausage maker, farmer, and tavern owner, she succeeded in her career as a writer and continued her work as a novelist and memoirist until her death in 1760.
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opened in Dublin that ran for decades. The cross-dressing actress CharlotteCharke ran the successful but short-lived Punch's Theatre in the Old Tennis...
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same-sex love as a topic, and that some writers including Louise Labé, CharlotteCharke, and Margaret Fuller either changed the pronouns in their literary...
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Guilt Its Own Punishment. The original cast included Thomas Davies and CharlotteCharke. Implicitly, the work attacks the government and Imperial strategy...
as Thorowgood, William Mills as Trueman, Jane Cibber as Maria and CharlotteCharke as Lucy. The London Merchant was staged ninety-six times from 1731...
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Garden's internal struggles would show up at the Haymarket, and thus CharlotteCharke would act there in a parody of her father, Colley Cibber, one of the...
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or after 1717, before reaching adulthood. Colley's youngest daughter Charlotte followed in her father's theatrical footsteps, but she fell out with him...
– The Virtuous Villager Charles Jervas (translator) – Don Quixote CharlotteCharke – Tit for Tat Charles Jennens – libretto for Handel's oratorio the...
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