John Bernard (actor)

John Bernard (1756 in Portsmouth, England – 29 November 1828 in London)[1] was an English actor and biographer. He was the author of Retrospections of the Stage (1830) and Retrospections of America, 1797-1811.[2] He acted in a number of plays with Mary Ann Duff.[3] His son, William Bayle Bernard, was a playwright and critic, and edited editions of his Retrospections.

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References
  1. Franklin Graham (1902) Histrionic Montreal: Annals of the Montreal stage, with biographical and critical notices of the plays and players of a century, John Lovell & Son, Montreal
  2. John Bernard (1830) Retrospections of the Stage Vol. 1, H. Colburn and R. Bentley, London
  3. Joseph Norton Ireland (1882) Mrs. Duff, James R. Osgood and Co., Boston


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