Elizabeth Cox (actress)
# Elizabeth Cox (actress)

Elizabeth "Betty" Cox was an English stage actress of the seventeenth century.

## Life

Her debut was in March 1671 when she acted Lydia in William Wycherley's Love in a Wood, for the King's Company, based at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She left the stage in 1675 but returned briefly in 1682.

## Selected roles

* Lydia in Love in a Wood by William Wycherley (1671)
* Violetta in The Assignation by John Dryden (1672)
* Palmrya in Marriage à la mode by John Dryden (1672)
* Octavia in Nero by Nathaniel Lee (1674)
* Constantia in The Amorous Old Woman by Thomas Duffet (1674)
* Desdemona in Othello by William Shakespeare (1675)
* Panthea in A King and No King by John Fletcher (1675)
* Indamora in Aureng-zebe by John Dryden (1675)
* Sophonisba in Sophonisba by Nathaniel Lee (1675)
* Artemira in The Heir of Morocco by Elkanah Settle (1682)
