Anne Marshall

Anne Marshall (fl. 1661 – 1682), also Mrs. Anne Quin, was a leading English actress of the Restoration era, one of the first generation of women performers to appear on the public stage in England.

John Downes, in his Roscius Anglicanus (1708), reported that Anne Marshall was among the initial group of actresses employed by manager Thomas Killigrew with his King's Company. She had been nominated as possibly the "first English actress," the Desdemona in the performance of Othello on 8 December 1660. [See: Margaret Hughes; Katherine Corey.] Marshall certainly played Desdemona in later performances.

Marshall is thought to have played Zempoalla in the Dryden/Howard collaboration The Indian Queen in 1664. She is known to have played the following roles with the King's Company:

Anne Marshall married an actor named Peter Quin, or Gwyn, probably in 1665; she resumed her stage career as Mrs. Quin once the theatres re-opened after the plague epidemic and the Great Fire of 1665–66. She played:

Marshall retired from the stage in 1668; but she resumed her career nine years later, this time with the rival Duke's Company under Thomas Betterton. With that troupe, her first role was Angelica Bianca in Aphra Behn's The Rover in March 1677. (Coincidentally, Marshall had been cast in the same role in the abortive all-female production of Thomas Killigrew's Thomaso in 1664.) She also played:

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