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Maria Rebecca Davison (1780?–1858), was a British actress. ==Description== Davison was taller than average, with dark hair, and strongly formed with very expressive features. She had a fine voice and a good knowledge of music, sang with much expression, and was in her day unequalled in such Scotch ballads as ''John Anderson'' and ''Roy's Wife.'' Her singing as Marchioness Mérida in the ''Travellers,'', which took place at Drury Lane 13 May 1823, proved she was an opera singer. It was said that there was no better exponent of Lady Teazle, Lady Townly, Beatrice, and other similar parts. As Juliana in the ''Honeymoon'' she had no rival. Leigh Hunt gives her large amounts of credit in his ''Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres,'' and speaks of her as the ''best lady our comic stage possesses,'' and advocates her ability to capture the audience and transform herself into a masculine figure. She is mentioned with implied commendation by Hazlitt, and Talfourd says in the ''New Monthly Magazine'' (vol. vi.) of her Mrs. Sullen in the ''The Beaux' Stratagem,'' that she acts it "in high style," that it is "by far her best character," and that he wishes for nothing better of the kind. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maria Rebecca Davison」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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