{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox play | name = The Successful Strangers | image = | image_size = | caption = | writer = William Mountfort | setting = | date of premiere = January 1690 | original language = English | place = Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London | series = | subject = | genre = Tragicomedy }} '''''The Successful Strangers''''' is a 1690 tragicomedy by the English writer William Mountfort.<ref>Watson p.769</ref>
The original Drury Lane cast included Joseph Williams as Don Carlos, George Powell as Antonio, William Mountfort as Silvio, James Nokes as Don Lopez, Anthony Leigh as Don Francisco, George Bright as Don Pedro, Cave Underhill as Guzman, William Bowen as Sancho, Frances Maria Knight as Dorothea, Susanna Mountfort as Feliciana and Anne Bracegirdle as Biancha.<ref>Van Lennep p.379</ref>
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==Bibliography== * Van Lennep, W. ''The London Stage, 1660-1800: Volume One, 1660-1700''. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960 . * Watson, George. ''The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800''. Cambridge University Press, 1971.
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