Catherine Clive (née Raftor; 5 November 1711 – 6 December 1785) Catherine ‘Kitty’ Clive (1711-1785, active 1728-1769) was a first songster and star comedienne of British playhouse entertainment. Clive led and created new forms of English musical theatre. She was celebrated both in high-style parts – singing, for instance, Handel’s music for her in Messiah, Samson, and The Way of the World – and in low-style ballad opera roles. Her likeness was printed and traded in unprecedented volume. She championed women’s rights throughout her career.
An image crisis in the late 1740s forced Clive to quit serious song and instead lampoon herself on stage. Though this self-ridicule won Clive public favour back, and she reigned as first comedienne until her retirement in 1769, the strategy’s very success caused her musical legacy to be slighted and forgotten. A definitive biography of Clive by Berta Joncus appeared in 2019.[1]
^Berta Joncus, Kitty Clive, or the Fair Songster (Boydell Press, 2019) Archived 7 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine.
Catherine Clive (née Raftor; 5 November 1711 – 6 December 1785) Catherine ‘Kitty’ Clive (1711-1785, active 1728-1769) was a first songster and star comedienne...
1740 the hugely successful KittyClive appeared as Rosamond at Drury Lane in Thomas Arne's opera of the same name. Clive had assisted her and she became...
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of the family, which could trace its involvement in theatre back to KittyClive, and trained as an actor at the Italia Conti School. He went on to play...
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also a ballad opera. First performed at Drury Lane in 1735, starring KittyClive and Charles Macklin, A Cure for a Scold was an adaptation of Lacy's Sauny...
Drury Lane. The play's cast also included the stars Hannah Pritchard and KittyClive. She also appeared in Ireland, where her Lady Townley (in The Provoked...
Mrs Mildmay, Frances Abington as Narcissa, Mary Bradshaw as Susan and KittyClive as Sift. Bataille p.46 Bataille, Robert R. The Writing Life of Hugh Kelly:...
The Private Life of Don Juan Pepilla uncredited 1935 Peg of Old Drury KittyClive 1936 Things to Come Roxana/Rowena as Margueretta Scott 1937 Much Ado...
Viola in Twelfth Night, a play not performed for more than 70 years. KittyClive plays Olivia. Mrs Pritchard's Rosalind (As You Like It) remains in the...
included William Mills as Aristarchus, Theophilus Cibber as Philander, KittyClive as Urania and Charlotte Charke as Thalia. Burling p.144 Baines, Paul...
and Adventures of Peter Wilkins Sarah Scott – The History of Cornelia KittyClive – The Rehearsal, or, Bays in Petticoats Carlo Goldoni La Bottega di Caffe...
Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (died 1765) December 6 – KittyClive, English actress and writer of farce (died 1785) unknown date – William...
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frailty of the mind 17 March 1740 Drury Lane Theatre, London Sung by Mrs. KittyClive at her benefit performance of William Congreve's The Way of the World...
replacing George Granville's melodramatic adaptation The Jew of Venice. KittyClive plays the travesti role of Portia. March 9 – War of the Austrian Succession:...
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