“Nell Gwynn,” the stylistic hodgepodge of an offering at Folger Theatre, represents what you might call the comedy of hope — the hope being that the next scene will be funnier than the one ...

And In fact, there is a Nell Gwynn House in Chelsea built in 1937 in an art-deco style which features a statue of Gwynn with a Cavalier King Charles spaniel at her feet which could be London's ...

Nell Gwynn. The name is more than a theatrical history footnote. She was the longtime lover of a king and among the first women to stride the English stage. It’s the 1660s. After a dozen years ...

Nell Gwynn's foul trick on Charles II's mistress to secure the King's favour An actress played a horrible trick on Charles II's mistress to ensure it was she who ended up in the King's bed.

What we know of Nell Gwyn is rather limited, and such sparse facts as have come down to us are principally found in Pepys and in the plays and gossip of the times of Charles II.

When Charles II died suddenly in 1685, Nell Gwyn’s world collapsed. She survived Charles only by two years. Though her death has usually been attributed simply to “apoplexy,” Biographer Bax ...

Hart offers Nell some training in the “attitudes,” the formal gestures and poses that marked the approach to acting for at least a couple of centuries of Western drama.

One summer’s morning in 1669, Queen Catherine of England popped so inconsiderately into the bedchamber of her spouse, Charles II, that there was scarcely time for Nell Gwyn to pop out of the ...

Nell Gwynn was one of the first ladies on the 17th-century stage and went on to become the first lady in Charles II’s boudoir. Not bad for someone who started out as a Cheapside moll flogging ...

Cinderella-like Nell Gwynn (a luminous Gugu Mbatha-Raw) made the astonishing journey from illiterate Cheapside commoner to Charles II’s bedchamber, via a celebrated stint as one of England's first ...