Overview
Character Name
Nell Gwynn
Show
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Role Size
Lead
Dancing
Mover
Voice
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto
Time & Place
London, England, Seventeenth Century
Analysis
Nell is an orange-hawker who has grown up in a brothel on Cheapside run by her mother. She worked as a prostitute earlier in her life and her sister, Rose, possibly still is one. She is spotted at the theatre by the actor, Charles Hart, when she upbraids a heckler and he
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