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Charles Colnaghi was an amateur actor who appeared | Charles Colnaghi ( - 1896) was an amateur actor who appeared in elite amateur performances in the late nineteenth century. He was an actor in the first theatricals inside Chatsworth House's theatre in 1895. | ||
Colnaghi is one of a number of amateur actors that historian David Coates has identified as part of a queer network.<ref>David Coates, University of Warwick.</ref> Interestingly, he performed in the matinee of John Gray and Andre Raffalovich's ''The Blackmailers'' at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 7 June 1894 alongside professionals and other high profile amateurs. Laurence Senelick has identified this play as being the first to 'present a modern honoerotic relationship in a reasonably overt manner'.<ref>Laurence Senelick, ''Lovesick: Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1925'', 1999, p17. </ref> | |||
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Charles Colnaghi ( - 1896) was an amateur actor who appeared in elite amateur performances in the late nineteenth century. He was an actor in the first theatricals inside Chatsworth House's theatre in 1895.
Colnaghi is one of a number of amateur actors that historian David Coates has identified as part of a queer network.[1] Interestingly, he performed in the matinee of John Gray and Andre Raffalovich's The Blackmailers at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 7 June 1894 alongside professionals and other high profile amateurs. Laurence Senelick has identified this play as being the first to 'present a modern honoerotic relationship in a reasonably overt manner'.[2]