Richard Baxter (actor)

For other people named Richard Baxter, see Richard Baxter (disambiguation).

Richard Baxter (c. 1593 – c. 1667), or Backster, was a seventeenth-century actor, who worked in some of the leading theatre companies of his era.[1] His long career illustrates the conditions during the difficult years of transition from the period of English Renaissance theatre, through the English Civil War and the Interregnum, and into the Restoration era.

  1. ^ Edwin Nunzeger, A Dictionary of Actors and of Other Persons Associated with the Public Representation of Plays in England before 1642. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1929; pp. 32-3.