Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Kickill to Machin

Among the multitude of theater people to appear in Volume 9is Mrs. Knepp, whose very existence engendered the green-eyed monster, jealousy, in the bosom of Mrs. Samuel Pepysand with good reason, as Pepys' diary shows. Mrs. Knepp, a "most excellent, mad­humoured thing," left her husband and moved in with the actor Joe Haines. Her death bearing his child elicited this la­ment and tribute from Haines: And Pray let His Matie: too understand How sad I have been in merry Scotland To Loose Mrs: Nep that inchanting Dear Lump That Fountaine of Love so juicy so Plump That delicate Compound of Spiritt & RumpHighfill, Philip, Jr. is the author of 'Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Kickill to Machin' with ISBN 9780809311293 and ISBN 0809311291.