Abstract
Biographers of Thomas Betterton remain unclear about the actor's apprenticeship in the 1650s, before he became associated with Sir William Davenant. The first sources for his life give as his master John Rhodes, part-time publisher and former member of the King's Men, while Jonathan Richardson had it on Pope's authority that he was apprenticed to John Holden, publisher of Davenant's Gondibert. This essay investigates the known facts about Holden's career and argues the likelihood of Betterton's having worked for both men, so proposing a new view of the social and political character of his early years in Interregnum London.
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