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West Digges

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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WEST DIGGES (1720-1786), English actor, made his first stage appearance in Dublin in 1749 as Jaffier in Venice Preserved; and both there and in Edinburgh until 1764 he acted in many tragic roles with success. He was the original "young Norval" in Home's Douglas (1756). His first London appearance was as Cato in the Haymarket in 1777, and he afterwards played Lear, Macbeth, Shylock and Wolsey. In 1881 he returned to Dublin and retired in 1784.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'West Digges'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​w/west-digges.html. 1910.
 
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