first actresses on the English public stage, starting in 1661. His company included Margaret Hughes, Anne Marshall, Mary Knep, Elizabeth Boutell, Katherine Corey, Elizabeth Cox, Elizabeth James and Nell Gwyn. Killigrew's motivations for entering into his theatrical enterprise were more monetary than artistic. During most of the 1660s, he seems not to have been a manager in the day-to-day sense; this task was delegated to the senior actors, including Hart, Lacy and Mohun. Killigrew did not exert – and probably could not have exerted – strong control over the artistic direction of the company. See also George Jolly John Rhodes Notes References Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington. A New History of the English Stage. London, Tinsley Brothers, 1882. Milhous, Judith. Thomas Betterton and the Management of Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1696–1708. Carbondale, IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1979. Wilson, John Harold. All the King's Ladies: Actresses of the Restoration, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1958. Organizations established in 1660 Organizations disestablished in 1682 1660 establishments in England 1682 disestablishments in England 17th-century theatre English early modern theatre companies Charles II of England