{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Short description|English actor}} '''Marmaduke Watson''' was an English stage actor of the seventeenth century. Part of the King's Company based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, he was one of the actors who sided with Charles Killigrew during a dispute in the company in 1677.<ref>Nicoll p.326</ref> In 1682 when the United Company was formed he left and went to Dublin to join the Smock Alley Theatre. He later returned to London where his final known performances were with Thomas Betterton's company at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre.<ref>Highfill, Burnim & Langhans pp. 300�–01.</ref>
==Selected roles== * Bakam in ''The Island Princess'' by John Fletcher (1668) * Hamet in ''The Conquest of Granada'' by John Dryden (1670) * Hostilius in ''The Roman Empress'' by William Joyner (1670) * Eubulus in ''Marriage à la mode'' by John Dryden (1673) * Don Manuel in ''The Spanish Rogue'' by Thomas Duffett (1673) * Captain Middleton in ''Amboyna'' by John Dryden (1673) * Silvius in ''Nero'' by Nathaniel Lee (1674) * Montanto in ''Othello'' by William Shakespeare (1675) * Swordsman in ''A King and No King'' by John Fletcher (1675) * Maherbal in ''Sophonisba'' by Nathaniel Lee (1675) * Arratur in ''Wits Led By the Nose'' by William Chamberlayne (1677) * Old Thrashard in ''The Country Innocence'' by John Leanerd (1677) * Eumenes in ''The Rival Queens'' by Nathaniel Lee (1677) * Physician in ''Trick for Trick'' by Thomas D'Urfey (1678) * Fidalbo in ''The Italian Husband'' by Edward Ravenscroft (1697) * Strechwell in ''The Deceiver Deceived'' by Mary Pix (1697)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Highfill, Philip H, Burnim, Kalman A. & Langhans, Edward A. ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800, Volume 15''. SIU Press, 1993. * Nicoll, Allardyce. ''A History of English Drama 1660–1900. Volume I''. Cambridge University Press, 2009. * Van Lennep, W. ''The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume One, 1660–1700''. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960. * Wilson, John Harold. ''Mr. Goodman the Player''. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1964.
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