{{Short description|British actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''John Corey''' ({{Floruit|1701–1735|}}) was an English stage actor and playwright of the eighteenth century. His name is sometime written as '''John Cory'''.

Born in Barnstaple in North Devon of a Cornish family, he first acted on the London stage in 1701 have originally studied law at the Inns of Chancery. He was therefore unlikely to have been the son of the Restoration actress Katherine Corey.<ref>Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.491</ref>

Between 1701 and 1735 he was a mainstay of the Drury Lane, Haymarket and Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre companies. Late in his career he appeared at the Goodman's Fields Theatre run by Henry Giffard.<ref>Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.492-93</ref> He also wrote two plays which were performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields early in his career there.

==Selected roles== * Seleuchus in ''Antiochus the Great'' by Jane Wiseman (1701) * Mirvan in ''Tamerlane'' by Nicholas Rowe (1701) * Colonel Many in ''The Beau's Duel'' by Susanna Centlivre (1702) * Careles in ''The Different Widows'' by Mary Pix (1703) * Dorante in ''The Gamester'' by Susanna Centlivre (1705) * Erici in ''The Revolution of Sweden'' by Catherine Cockburn (1706) * Don Philip in ''Adventures in Madrid'' by Mary Pix (1706) * Barzanes in ''The Persian Princess'' by Lewis Theobald (1708) * Easy in ''The Fair Quaker of Deal'' by Charles Shadwell (1710) * Gonsalvo in ''The Perfidious Brother'' by Lewis Theobald (1716) * Lelius in ''Scipio Africanus'' by Charles Beckingham (1718) * Menenius in ''The Invader of His Country'' by John Dennis (1719) * Agesilius in ''The Spartan Dame'' by Thomas Southerne (1719) * Salisbury in ''Sir Walter Raleigh'' by George Sewell (1719) * Amiens in ''Love in a Forest'' by Charles Johnson (1730) * Orthagoros in ''Timoleon'' by Benjamin Martyn (1730) * Therapios in ''Medea'' by Charles Johnson (1730) * Ariston in ''Eurydice'' by David Mallet (1731)

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==Bibliography== * Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Volume VIII''. SIU Press, 1978.

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