Restoration & Augustan

Barton Booth

1681–1733


Barton Booth (1681–1733) was an English actor, famous in the part of Cato in Addison's tragedy (1713), and from 1713 a joint manager of the Drury Lane theatre.

He also wrote occasional verse; his song “Sweet are the Charms of her I love” was printed in The Hive in 1726 and widely reprinted.

  1. Sweet are the Charms of her I love

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