{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Short description|English actress}} '''Mary Corbett''' was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century. She was a member of the King's Company, based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She appears to have left the company around the time of the merger creating the new United Company.<ref>Highfill, Burnim & Langhans p.486-487</ref> Her name is sometimes written as '''Mary Corbet'''.
==Selected roles== * Mrs Dainty Fidget in ''The Country Wife'' by William Wycherley (1675) * King Andrew in ''Psyche Debauched'' by Thomas Duffet (1675) * Melesinda in ''Aureng-zebe'' by John Dryden (1675) * Narcissa in ''Gloriana'' by Nathaniel Lee (1676) * Clevly in ''The Man of Newmarket'' by Edward Howard (1678) * Monima in ''Mithridates, King of Pontus'' by Nathaniel Lee (1678) * Sabina in ''Trick for Trick'' by Thomas D'Urfey (1678) * Gratiana in ''Sir Barnaby Whigg'' by Thomas D'Urfey (1681) * Countess of Nottingham in ''The Unhappy Favourite'' by John Banks (1681)
== 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:''. SIU Press, 1982. * Lanier, Henry Wysham. ''The First English Actresses: From the Initial Appearance of Women on the Stage in 1660 Till 1700''. The Players, 1930. * Van Lennep, W. ''The London Stage, 1660–1800: Volume One, 1660–1700''. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960.
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